Crossword-Solution: PERTNESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pertness | n. | The quality or state of being pert. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PERTNESS | anagram | PRESENTS, SERPENTS |
We have 13 clues for the answer “PERTNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A trait of Laura's: Gil Blas. | 1 answer |
| Sassy quality | 1 answer |
| Saucy behavior | 1 answer |
| quality of being lively and confident | 1 answer |
| Sauciness | 8 answers |
| pertness | 9 answers |
| Back Talk | 28 answers |
| Impertinence | 31 answers |
| BRASS ___ | 42 answers |
| Chutzpah | 47 answers |
| Defiance | 54 answers |
| Cheek | 66 answers |
| Sauce | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PERTNESS (5)
With him therefore the blushing modesty and unaffected simplicity of Charlotte passed unnoticed; but the forward pertness of La Rue, the freedom of her conversation, the elegance of her person, mixed with a certain engaging JE NE SAIS QUOI, perfectly enchanted him.
Lizzie struck her as positive and explicit almost to pertness; and the idea of her combining the apparent incongruities of a taste for housework and the wearing of fresh, Parisian-looking dresses suggested the possession of a dangerous energy.
Now he has caught my eye, and skips across the room with a pretty pertness, which I should like to correct with a box on the ear.
You won't mind sleeping with such a very young woman, grandmother?' 'You sweet little pertness!' said the old lady, and drew her towards her, and kissed her on the forehead and the cheek and the mouth.
But if you hit it not you are in for a sound drubbing for your pertness.” “Pick your own target,” quoth Rob in a fine rage.
Quotes with PERTNESS (2)
She drew gallantry from men as the sun drew water. Her pertness enchanted them. Young men went away from her with a feeling of bravado. Old men were enslaved by her silver curls. Something about her was forever female and made all men virile.
Those, therefore, who effect to despise "profane" Science are themselves despicable. It is their own incapacity for true Thought of any serious kind, their vanity and pertness; nay more also! their own subconsciousness sense of their own shame and idleness, that induces them to build these flimsy fortification of pretentious ignorance.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1947–2020).