英：['pɜ:tnɪs]
美：['pɜtnɪs]
pertness如何读
pertness是什么意思
- n.无礼；傲慢；活泼
pertness英英释义
adjective
saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured
being trim and chic : jaunty
a pert little hat
piquantly stimulating
is a pert notion
lively, vivacious
pertness词源英文解释
Middle English, evident, attractive, saucy, short for apert evident, from Anglo-French, from Latin apertus open, from past participle of aperire to open
The first known use of pert was in the 14th century
pertness儿童词典英英释义
petalnoun
one of the often brightly colored modified leaves that make up the corolla of a flower
pestholenoun
a place in which diseases are common
pesterverb
annoy, bother
pesterverb
annoy, bother
Pesachnoun
passover
peruseverb
read entry 1 sense 1aespecially: to read carefully or thoroughly
perukenoun
a kind of wig popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
pertadjective
impudent
being trim and chic
vivacious, lively
pertness 例句
1 The lady was first produced; she advanced without pertness, calm and self-possessed.
2 Even now she could only call him Philip when the importance of the remark was enough to hide what still seemed an unpardonable kind of pertness.
3 a pert retort that irritated the teacher
4 Yes, but would it not serve Miss Manners right for giving her such stupid, unspiritual kind of teaching to do, and also serve the children right for their pertness and ingratitude?
5 Cease then your pertness—for I know When to give back, and when to go.”
6 Charter felt as he walked alone that he had shown his youth, even a pertness of youth.
7 It moans— Larges and Longs and Breves displacing quite Crotchet-and-quaver pertness—brushing bars Aside and filling vacant sky with stars Hidden till now that day returns to night.
8 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.
9 a pert girl who is a member of the cheerleading squad
10 Don’t Look Up in a pale blue Gucci suit, standing alongside a beaming, pregnant Jennifer Lawrence, a clean-cut Leonardo Dicaprio, and a pert Meryl Streep.
11 "Now if you had been educated—" "Oh yes, of course," she replied, with desperate pertness.
12 But Shane's babble, once set going, was not to be stemmed by pertness.
13 I see Charles hasn't cured you of your pertness yet, miss—ma'am, I should say.
14 The pertness of Falconet is unworthy grave criticism and the subject, though it is quoted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
15 We are accustomed to more physically attractive Touchstones, fools with finer bodies, and yet this keen-minded, stout person spoke his lines with such pertness and spontaneity that they rarely failed of their proper effect.
16 Her pertness, her Anglo-Saxon vivacity, were gone; her face was wooden, expressionless; her restless eyes slow-moving and dull; her cheek-bones, always noticeably high, looked higher, and her skin was murky and dark.
17 He was captivated by her beauty, by her vivacity, by her brilliancy in repartee—Miss Theodora would have called the last "pertness."
18 So even in 1605, Camden identified a woman's desire to retain her own name on marriage with "ambition", "pertness" and "forwardness".
19 She had a constitutional terror of her aunt's sharp eyes, and, though she examined her young cousins wistfully, Madeleine's unconscious air of dignity repelled her as much as Molly's deliberate pertness.
20 Oh, no!" simply replied Rachel Gray, too well disciplined into humility to feel offended with the pertness of a child, "I am never afraid; but then, I am so much older than you.