frisky
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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
In this account of life with a wild creature—a being by turns serene and frisky, trusting and standoffish—Ms. Dalton connects readers with the strangeness of the natural world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
The S&P 500 is up a frisky 15% so far this year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
“He was a frisky one. Fluffy was much more prim and proper.”
From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold
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
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
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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