gamesome
Example Sentences
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The gamesome yet secretive daughter of a famous writer, she studies history, informed by a postmodern suspicion of “truth” that winks at coming narrative vexations.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019
Melville observed of the humpback: “He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any other of them.”
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2018
Homestake was one of the biggest winnings made by his mining-minded father in a long and gamesome career.*
From Time Magazine Archive
As for the paying guests, most were game, and a few were gamesome.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was delight to see My lovely kittens three, When after corks through all the room they flew, When oft in gamesome guise they did their tails pursue.
From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
