Pertly is an adjective that describes someone or something that is lively, bold, or sassy. Antonyms for pertly include adjectives that describe the opposite characteristics, such as timidly, meekly, shyly, or demurely. These words suggest a lack of confidence, assertiveness, or impudence. Other antonyms for pertly might include adjectives such as slothfully, languidly, or indolently, which describe a sluggish or leisurely nature. Finally, antonyms for pertly might include adjectives such as seriously, soberly, or sternly, which suggest a lack of playfulness or humor. By understanding the antonyms for pertly, you can better understand the full range of meanings that this adjective can convey.

What are the antonyms for Pertly?

• adv.

  • noun
  • dully
  ,
  • halfheartedly
  ,
  • heavily
  ,
  • idly
  ,
  • inanimately
  ,
  • indolently
  ,
  • lazily
  ,
  • lethargically
  ,
  • listlessly
  ,
  • slothfully
  ,
  • sluggishly
  ,
  • tardily
  ,
  • tiredly
  ,
  • wearily
  .

Usage examples for Pertly

Famous quotes with Pertly

• God, say some philosophers, manifests himself in the sublunary world in particular beauties, truths and acts of benevolence; properly, the values should be conjoined to shadow their identity in the godhead, but this happens so infrequently that one must suppose divinity condones a kind of diabolic fracture or else, and perhaps my book is already giving some hint of this, he demonstrates his ineffable freedom through contriving at times a wanton inconsistency. If this is so, we need not wonder at Messalina’s failure to match her beauty with a love of truth and goodness. She was a chronic liar and she was thoroughly bad. But her beauty, we are told, was a miracle. The symmetry of her body obeyed all the golden rules of the mystical architects, her skin was without even the most minuscule flaw and it glowed as though gold had been inlaid behind translucent ivory, her breasts were full and yet pertly disdained earth’s pull, the nipples nearly always erect, and visibly so beneath her byssinos, as in a state of perpetual sexual excitation, the areolas delicately pigmented to a kind of russet. The sight of her weaving bare white arms was enough, it is said, to make a man grit his teeth with desire to be encircled by them; the smooth plain of her back, tapering to slenderness only to expand lusciously to the opulence of her perfect buttocks, demanded unending caresses.

  Anthony Burgess

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