high-spirited

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Either way, the high-spirited jams are a throwback to a time when you still felt like clapping your hands, and maybe even saying “yeah. “

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2025

Lives lived: Seiji Ozawa, a high-spirited Japanese conductor who directed the Boston Symphony Orchestra for decades, died at 88.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2024

Mr Hill said queues could be "high-spirited" and there was sometimes jostling but it was "nothing like a football crowd".

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2023

The event was scriptless, to honor a compromise with striking writers, but chock full of high-spirited Broadway performances drawing raucous cheers from an audience clearly thrilled to be there at all.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2023

Pumphrey warns Booth that the mare is extremely high-spirited.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly