pert

IPA: pˈɝt

(obsolete) An impudent person.
(operations) Acronym of program evaluation and review technique. [(operations) A method for diagramming and analyzing the flow of dependent tasks and other events in a project.]

Examples of "pert" in Sentences

“I guess we called her pert,” she said, with a smile moving her thick features.
The worst pert is that his colleagues, friends and even his family have no idea who he is.
We'll need somebody to heave a bucket of water on Issy pretty soon; he's gettin 'kind of pert and uppish again.
Spark has never been an abundant imaginer; her deliberate deprivations and omissions have always represented a kind of pert challenge to the reader, as if she were saying, "This is all I will give you; make of these rations what you can."
They would become "pert," as pages were supposed to be, and diffident as esquires, but as knights they would come back of themselves to the perfect ways of their childhood with a grace that became well the strength and self-possession of their knighthood.
Porter -- who Time described as a pert, brown-eyed, dark haired, nail-biting, chain-smoking, go-getter -- helped enfranchise American women to the investment world, teaching them core concepts and strategies so they need not ask for a man's help to take the reins of what Porter termed "pocketbook issues."
In its notice of the play in August 1823, the Mirror of the Stage; or, New Dramatic Censor found Mrs. Weippert (whose initial it gives as "I.") of particular interest: "as a singer, this lady's merits are not above mediocrity; but whenever she is put into characters suited to her talents, such as pert servants, or romping hoyden's [sic], she displays considerable vivacity and spirit."