sportiveness
Example Sentences
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Like Sister Sylvester’s 2014 karaoke play, “Dead Behind These Eyes,” this show sugarcoats its serious intent with oddball sportiveness.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2015
This sportiveness, not common in algae, makes it an entertaining pet.
From Time Magazine Archive
There had always been method of a sort in his sportiveness.
From Time Magazine Archive
But retirement softened him, and the real nature of Lord Cromer, with its elements of geniality and sportiveness, came into full play.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund
I cannot express the manly indignation of the worthies we left in there at such sportiveness.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth
