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• I arrived with my kooky shepherd shtick, but there was no perky lambiness about this lot.2024 March 9, Michael Donkor, “‘You’re gay, sir, innit?’: As a teacher, I kept my sexuality a secret – until I couldn’t”, in The Guardian. From the entry lambiness
• She is dropping off two bloomed-out dendrobiums and a cattleya and picking up a perky slipper orchid.2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The…. From the entry dendrobium
• I bent down and scratched Duffy behind his perky black ears.2017 [2016], Susan Dunlap, Out of Nowhere: A Darcy Lott Mystery (The Darcy Lott Series; 7), Sutton: Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry lap-doggy
• All these skinny modern chicks with their perky threepenny bits do nothing for me.1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 86. From the entry threepenny bit
• He clichéd at me in a perky, condescending tone.2015, Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person. From the entry cliché
• Mrs Parsons was as brisk as her husband was dawdlesome, and as plump and perky as he was slow.2002, Barbara Euphan Todd, Worzel Gummidge. From the entry dawdlesome
• Then as the perky newsreaderess read the news perkily.1995 February 24, Arne Adolfsen, “Re: NBC airs Louganis story - poorly”, in soc.motss (Usenet), message-ID <3ilhue$73j@mizar.usc.edu>. From the entry newsreaderess
• Her perky yabbos are doing a pretty good impression of a couple of Hostess Sno Balls below her form-fitting fuzzy pink sweater.2010, Don Calame, Beat the Band, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry yabbos
• Elphaba is shunned by the other students at a Hogwartsian sorcery school called Shiz University, while the prom-queen perky Galinda rules the roost.2010 September 4, Don Aucoin, “‘Wicked’ tough to beat, as is its star”, in The Boston Globe, volume 278, number 66, page G5. From the entry Hogwartsian
• The piece moves in alluring spans of swirling figures, jagged lines and pointillistic outbursts, often prodded forward by ostinatos in the perky piano.2009 January 26, Anthony Tommasini, “Pricking Up the Ears to Listen for Echoes of California”, in New York Times. From the entry ostinato
• Girls laciness is not in Japan Madonna-style lace but rather First Communion lace—but with a perky falseness sometimes called burikko, or false-innocent.1994, Merry White, The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America, page 129. From the entry burikko
• Obsessively perky Alex Klickstein, as the French-toasty tart Fifi, does a blend of the hora and the can-can, rolling on the laps of stunned spectators.1989 May 26, Bill Marx, “Warped Web: Boston Baked Theatre get tied to the tracks”, in The Boston Phoenix, section three, page 22. From the entry French-toasty
• I said, “hi, I’d like to schedule a massage with Jill.” She says (using a perky high-pitched voice) “Okay, how about seven, this evening?” “Perfect” I said.2019, Deb Meyer, Momma Needs a Break: A Monologue, Columbus, Wis., via Playwrights’ Center, page 2. From the entry nopesies
• The perennially perky Sarah of the swingorilliant Same Difference from series four said at the time that her bullying was prompted by her strong desire to sing and perform.2009, Keeley Bolger, How To Win The X Factor. From the entry swingorilliant

Meaning of perky

1. adjective Lively and often cheerful and enthusiastic.
2. adjective Standing upright; firm.
3. adjective Early-ripening.

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How do you use perky in a sentence?

Perky is used as an adjective. For example: “She answered with a perky smile and bounced off.”

What is a short sentence with perky?

“He clichéd at me in a perky, condescending tone.”

What does perky mean?

Perky means lively and often cheerful and enthusiastic.