frisky

The Black Crowes broke out with a frisky cover of this Otis Redding tune just as hair metal was giving way to grunge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

High-end and low-end customers alike adored his frisky, unpredictable spirit — both on and off the runway.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

Fans are feeling frisky about a plan to transform the building into a bar, campaigning against the idea in letters to city board members and online.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

The S&P 500 is up a frisky 15% so far this year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025

His nieces had signed their names in different-colored ink, frisky and naïve.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Anitta came up as a choir girl in the church she attended with her maternal grandparents, but funk carioca, Brazil’s friskier, rhythmic approach to hip-hop, had captivated the singer from a young age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

It’s spryer, friskier and, like the art of her old professor John Baldessari, it comes across its philosophical profundity partly through jest.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2020

In June, Simon will release his thirteenth solo album, “Stranger to Stranger,” which is friskier and funnier than its recent predecessors—his most danceable music in decades.

From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016

Yet if Osborne seems already to have decided what the commission's conclusions should be, its members have looked friskier.

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013

In friskier moods, she performed lazy pirouettes, as though to the accompaniment of my own music box, which I always brought to the roof to keep me company.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Netflix promises the documentary will feature the cats' "finest and friskiest moments," so ailurophiles — you're in for a treat.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2021

He chewed the ears off a squeaky pink stuffed rabbit and now parades around the house with its earless body whenever he’s at his friskiest.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2021

These are the ones families often pick from a litter because they stand out as the brightest and friskiest.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 6, 2021

Among the friskiest selections are “Arboretum,” by Tony Williams, and “Zoot Suite,” by Jack DeJohnette; among the more plaintive are Ed Blackwell’s “Togo” and Paul Motian’s “It Should’ve Happened a Long Time Ago.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2010

One was the friskiest dog he had ever seen in his life.

From The Little Colonel by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston