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

The grateful plant repays the care bestowed upon it by bursting into a sportiveness unsuspected, and indeed impossible, amidst the alarms and frays incessant in the wilderness.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by Iles, George

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