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

We are the monks of Oyster-le-Main, Hooded and gowned as fools may see; Hooded and gowned though we monks be, Is that a reason we should abstain From cups of the gamesome Burgundie?

From The Dragon of Wantley His Tale by Stewardson, John