pertly
- r in an impudent or impertinent manner
- The fur-coated bride was young (22), pertly pretty and the "richest girl in the world.
- When a telephone operator refuses to give out the time, when she refuses even to repeat the number given her, but, instead, chirps pertly, "Thank you"is she giving "good.
- He's in a coma, having been saved from death by a pertly pining princess (Sandra Bullock) who, loving him from afar, is unaware that he's really a toad in disguise.