pertness

How To Use pertness In A Sentence

• Be it knowledge or skills, the general counseling training and experience of the addictions counselor constitutes another source of expertness.
• The frequentation of courts checks this petulancy of manners; the good-breeding and circumspection which are necessary, and only to be learned there, correct those pertnesses. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
• They correct none of the childish nasty tricks, which they get at school; nor the illiberal manners which they contract at the university; nor the frivolous and superficial pertness, which is commonly all that they acquire by their travels. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
• Pope gained but little in the warfare he waged with him, for this plain reason -- that the great poet accuses his adversary of dullness, which was not by any means one of his sins, instead of selecting one of the numerous faults, such as pertness, petulance, and presumption, of which he was really guilty. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
• Regarding the subject at hand here, though, I think that "expertness" in the case of the violinist and the programmer, it had a lot to do with being an expert at the use of the very few tools for those 10,000 hours (violin + sheet music or computer and programming language). Marketing Profs Daily Fix
• They were often allowed considerable licence, though pertness had its dangers.
• "That is what I meant by her pertness," said Mrs Corey, when they were driving away.
• Indeed there's a very animated conversation about whether one should compromise jiggliness for pertness.
• He admired the expertness of these artists so much, that he copied many of their paintings in order to learn as much as possible about the way these artists worked.
• Directed with anodyne pertness by Raben, it's the story of Robbie Hart Ciaran McCarthy who, until he becomes a rock star, fronts a band that plays at weddings in Ridgefield, New Jersey. James Scarborough: The Wedding Singer, Musical Theatre West