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

It began in sportiveness, but before long became deeply serious and interesting.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

I was struck with his appearance, his quickness of conception, and that mixture of sportiveness and depth, which I had found characteristic of the higher orders of French society.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various