pertness

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Stephanie Andrea Barron lends Iphigenia a benevolent pertness, but she doesn’t connect the romantic, sappy, impressionable daddy’s girl with the resolved martyr who refuses to let Acquah Kwame Dansoh’s geek-jock Achilles die for her.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2017

Young women were felled by the pertness of the Pomeranian, the confectionery of a bichon frise.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2016

Ms. Worsham, with her bright soprano, matches him note for note, her girlish pertness persuading us that this naïve young woman would fall so hard so fast.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2014

Her lyric soprano had a wonderfully warm, buttery sound, and her performance radiated charm without slipping into pertness.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2012

Time remedies these defects; but there is one less curable and less endurable—that of pertness and flippancy—the loud remarks and exclamations—the look of self-sufficiency and confidence.

From The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Hartley, Florence