sportiveness

Example Sentences

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Like Sister Sylvester’s 2014 karaoke play, “Dead Behind These Eyes,” this show sugarcoats its serious intent with oddball sportiveness.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2015

This sportiveness, not common in algae, makes it an entertaining pet.

From Time Magazine Archive

There had always been method of a sort in his sportiveness.

From Time Magazine Archive

With all her gaiety and sportiveness, she had a heart filled with all the tenderest sensibilities of a woman.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay

"Did you want me, grandpapa?" said the young girl, entering, and addressing him by the title she had one day given him in sportiveness, and which he liked to be called by.

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James