frolicsome
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Gleiberman concluded the film is "lighter, more frolicsome, less lead-footed than such clomping live-action Disney remakes as Alice in Wonderland and Beauty and the Beast".
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025
“Tartuffe: Born Again” might not satisfy purists, but anyone looking for a frolicsome encounter with a classic comedy in the most divine natural setting will leave with a smile.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024
Some get frolicsome only here and there or even here or there.
From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2021
The kea’s frolicsome nature, for instance, “tells us that neither the capacity to be aware of other minds nor the wish to play with them belongs to humans alone,” she writes.
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2020
I’m guided by the pure Anne within, but on the outside I’m nothing but a frolicsome little goat tugging at its tether.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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