frisky
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The thrill of these frisky flyweights is getting them to, and holding them at and around, the instantaneous limits of the tires—sawing at the wheel, pouring on the coal, pitching and catching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
High-end and low-end customers alike adored his frisky, unpredictable spirit — both on and off the runway.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
The S&P 500 is up a frisky 15% so far this year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
Her son Ajit, just beginning to walk, was full of life: frisky, restless, and curious about the world.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2025
At a respectably subordinate distance behind Joseph came the women of Galilee, mixed in with a motley, perhaps gate-crashing crowd of mourners, spectators, children, and no less than three frisky, impious mongrels.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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
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
He would grow friskier, more pragmatic and less self-dramatizing during the course of his long correspondence with Kerouac, but one thing never changed: Ginsberg’s insistence on keeping the friendship alive.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2010
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
Rooms, I verily believe, get saturated with the aroma of their spiritual atmosphere; and there are some so stately, so correct, that they would paralyze even the friskiest kitten or the most impudent Scotch terrier.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
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