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

A compatriot of my own here came up, and with the sportiveness allowable to intimacy, said, "What's the row?"

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

As with Fielding, as with Thackeray, the light current tone of sportiveness or irony heightens the rare solemnity of didactic moral earnestness.

From Horace by Tuckwell, William