pertness

noun

Definition of pertnessnext
as in gall
shameless boldness the startling pertness with which the server responded to our request to make a substitution

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  1. gall
  2. nerve
  3. arrogance
Noun
  • And Big Government had the gall to charge me $35 to get in?
    Peter Rubin, Longreads, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The females will then find a gall, or a growth on a plant caused by mites, insects or some other kind of infestation.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2024
Definition of gall
Noun
  • The pot shattered, severing tissue and nerves in Treinen’s thumb.
    Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Severe frostbite can lead to long-term complications like chronic pain and nerve damage.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of nerve
Noun
  • Dastmalchian gets to play it all — disbelief, arrogance, grieving, terrified — sometimes in the same moment.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
  • These things are a big investment of time and to have not one, but two of them that might otherwise have had a reasonable expectation of success — probably arrogance on my part — but still, many times an author who gets published once can get published a second time.
    Choire Sicha, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of arrogance
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“Pertness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pertness. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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