sprightly

Another of his horses was named in the Guinness Book of Records for the fastest 10-metre dash while on hind legs -- a sprightly 4.19 seconds.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

Ms. Lewin has written a sprightly account of writers’ rooms on both sides of the Atlantic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Its cast is exactly the sprightly ensemble needed to land its what-if laughs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

The legs have not looked as sprightly as they once did.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025

She is a sprightly, spidery woman, with a narrow nose and piercing hazel eyes as bright and sharp as a bird’s.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Likewise, after 2024’s narratively dreary “Wicked,” returning director Jon M. Chu persuades us to come back to Oz for this smarter, sprightlier follow-up that’s all about the pageantry of propaganda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

In all-wheel-drive form, the RDX is a bit sprightlier around corners than the GV70.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

Crews has also utilised his linebacker physique in more visceral projects, including playing one of the sprightlier members of Sylvester Stallone’s OAP action ensemble The Expendables.

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2018

At fifty-two, she is sprightlier than her more serious work suggests, a quality that helps earn the trust of her subjects, whether in Africa or in coal country.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017

Miss Whitlaw seemed to lose ten years and become sprightlier.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

And the rhythmic and harmonic quirkiness of the two Contredanses made the sprightliest movements in the Bach, Handel and Muffat works sound staid.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2011

They appear on the labels of some of the most intrepid clothes around, and they belong to two of the sprightliest newcomers anywhere on the fashion map.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the days of Alva Johnston and of Stanley Walker, the Trib's city coverage was the sprightliest in town.

From Time Magazine Archive

While dramatic series have become drearier, commercials have developed into the sprightliest little plays on television.

From Time Magazine Archive

I found myself with a slender, agile body of thirteen joints, and three pairs of the sprightliest, spider-like legs you ever saw, each tipped with three little sharp claws.

From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson