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
Like gamesome boys over the churchyard dead; The light in vain keeps looking for his face:— Now screaming sea-fowl settle in his place.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
