sportiveness

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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

His sportiveness and disinclination to religious seriousness gave his mother some anxiety, and she would look at him, says his biographer, with a half mournful admiration, and exclaim, "O Washington! if you were only good!"

From Washington Irving by Warner, Charles Dudley

Lord Eldon, though all gravity on the bench, and seldom indulging in any sportiveness in parliament, was a humorist at table, and fond of humorous recollections.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various