patness

Example Sentences

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As written, the words appear noncommittal, yet the rhyme implies the patness of what these women have to say.

From New York Times • May 17, 2018

But Mukherjee’s primary bulwark against patness is a piece of formal daring.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 14, 2016

There was the patness — too obvious to be accidental — of their final exchange, when Will said, “No fuss, no muss,” and Alicia said, “That’s me.”

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2011

They have appeared when need arose for describing a practice or an article not described with sufficient patness by any word of the standard language.

From Time Magazine Archive

Things fall about with an odd patness, as you say.

From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by Cabell, James Branch