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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

They approached the plain full of sportiveness, some coursing butterflies, others culling flowers, or picking up the shining little pebbles that attracted their notice.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William