frisky

Example Sentences

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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

He also developed a substantial practice overseas, especially in China, where he designed buildings that managed to be both gargantuan and frisky.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 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