gamesome
Example Sentences
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The gamesome yet secretive daughter of a famous writer, she studies history, informed by a postmodern suspicion of “truth” that winks at coming narrative vexations.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019
Melville observed of the humpback: “He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any other of them.”
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2018
As for the paying guests, most were game, and a few were gamesome.
From Time Magazine Archive
Homestake was one of the biggest winnings made by his mining-minded father in a long and gamesome career.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Away they sped with gamesome minds, And souls untouch'd by sin; To a level mead they came, and there They drave the wickets in: Pleasantly shone the setting sun Over the town of Lynn.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
