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frisky

[fris-kee] / ˈfrɪs ki /


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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

Given the number of ballads she’d worked up, George asked Douglass and Littell to write a couple of new uptempo tunes; among the ones they came up with was the frisky “La Lune S’en Va.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 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

It’s great having four big, frisky German shepherds around; we’ve come such a long way since the days when Adria and I had to beg our dad for just one dog.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

Lucy Dacus, “Best Guess” The unhurried tempo makes it only friskier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025

But to the writer and director Caroline Vignal’s credit, this low-key romantic French comedy proves friskier and more idiosyncratic than its reliance on this trope of feminist empowerment would suggest.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 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

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

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

The same goes for the servant twins, with Carson Elrod getting some of Shakespeare’s friskiest wordplay as Dromio of Syracuse, while Carter Gill absorbs a lot of blows from his masters as Dromio of Ephesus.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2018

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

Naturally, the nimblest, friskiest steers got in the front, and they were a sore trial to the Deacon, to restrain them to the line of march, and keep them from straying off and getting lost.

From Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy




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