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

There had always been method of a sort in his sportiveness.

From Time Magazine Archive

This sportiveness, not common in algae, makes it an entertaining pet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sainte-Beuve is an instance of the half-malicious sportiveness of nature or of fortune.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

I called as in old days at the Duchrae, when I used to carry her on my back, and she in sportiveness used to run and hide from me.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)