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zestful

[zest-fuhl] / ˈzɛst fəl /












ADJECTIVE
sapid
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That’s all because we say that most of the interesting stuff is done by volunteerism and entrepreneurship and will, zestful building, not by the coercive powers of the state.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Ami Okumura Jones and Mei Mac, both adults, play the girls with a zestful appetite for experience that never turns cloying, and Dai Tabuchi is infinitely touching as their kindly father.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022

At 40, Lansbury stormed the New York stage in 1966 as the zestful, eccentric star of “Mame,” a part she almost didn’t get because producers perceived her as “that lady who plays everybody’s mother.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2022

Maggy Hurchalla, 81, a zestful and adventuresome environmentalist who carved a reputation independent from her trailblazing sister, Janet Reno, the first female U.S. attorney general, died Feb. 19 at her home in Stuart, Florida.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2022

But after a moment he found that the oranges possessed a pungency and zestful flavor that he had tasted in no others.

From Wild Oranges by Hergesheimer, Joseph




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