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jeu d'esprit
noun as in lightheartedness
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Example Sentences
One of our poets, in a very clever jeu d'esprit, spoke of Mr. Browning as 'thinking in Greek.'
For a jeu d'esprit of that kind it is too long; it would have suited better as an essay or article than as a volume.
Then turn from the shadow of that scene to the shimmer of the one that follows immediately, full of smartness and jeu d'esprit.
It was a mere jeu d'esprit, a specimen of his humorous journalism, elaborated from the St James's Gazette.
Buckland, I think, once indulged in the jeu d'esprit of supposing an ichthyosaur lecturing on the human skull.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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