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
And then, sated with destruction, smile and glisten beneath the morning sunbeams with all the sportiveness of child-like innocence.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
But there are few of us who would care to see the monumental calm of our fireside sphinx degenerate into senile sportiveness.
From Americans and Others by Repplier, Agnes
