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
She took peculiar delight in my sportiveness and certain sweetness in my external deportment.
From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte
No charm of graceful sportiveness, of artful compliment, or of kindly seeming, was wanting to the attraction of her manners.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
