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 seems to have been an expression of pure sportiveness and mirth-making, and was therefore performed without sacrifice or religious ceremony.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright

That agreeable humor and sportiveness, which seemed native to him, though by reason of his thousand cares not often seen, is now wholly gone.

From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by Ware, William