friskiness

Example Sentences

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The Cardinals’ friskiness is being chatted about because of preseason expectations, but they’ve quietly been drubbed the last three weeks, losing by more than two touchdowns in all three weeks while failing to cover.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023

Anyone who watched him as a young assistant in Washington could see that he loved the game with a kid’s friskiness.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2022

Dilyn's friskiness is "endless", he explained as he chatted to officers at Surrey Police's HQ in Guildford.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2021

Everywhere is a visual echo to suit a fishbowl tone of paranoia, with the friskiness of Jacques Tati slicing up architectural space in “Playtime” and with an economic elegance of style all its own.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2018

But in the autumn, when the men have returned from their long out-of-door rest, with brush and palette, a certain amount of friskiness is developed, which sometimes expends itself upon the luckless ``nouveau.''

From In the Quarter by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)