Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Openly; plainly; clearly; evidently; truly.
- Readily; briskly; promptly.
- In a pert, bold, or saucy manner; saucily.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a pert manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a manner that is
lively orhigh-spirited
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an impudent or impertinent manner
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Examples
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I did the best I could -- and as for the matter of that, "pertly," so did the _bon Dieu_. "
Madcap George Gibbs 1906
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Susan Heyward, as Sabrina, not only sparkles in the role, but pertly reasons her way through the character's dilemmas.
Theater: 'Sabrina Fair' at Ford's Theatre is reviewed by Nelson Pressley Nelson Pressley 2010
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I mimicked his posture—arms crossed, head cocked pertly.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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Hye-Youn Lee's Lisette scurried pertly, her sweet, clear soprano full of character and a good complement to the warmth and wistfulness of Kate Ladner's Magda – the swallow of the title, who flies from true love for guilty memory.
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It's not "bedfellows making strange politics," as the Toronto Star so pertly puts it.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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I mimicked his posture—arms crossed, head cocked pertly.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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It's a masterful Brueghel composition, leading the eye along a zigzag path to a windmill perched pertly on the distant horizon.
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Center Rep's production of She Loves Me! was pertly directed and choreographed by Robert Barry Fleming.
George Heymont: Twelve Months Till Christmas George Heymont 2011
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The owner looked at my CV, the numerous internships squeezed together with painstaking artifice to make it all fit onto one page, and then looked at me, perched pertly on the chair in front of him, in the new suit and heels my father bought me, with only a hint of neutral makeup, a 21st-century secular martyr.
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Center Rep's production of She Loves Me! was pertly directed and choreographed by Robert Barry Fleming.
George Heymont: Twelve Months Till Christmas George Heymont 2011
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