sprightliness

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On this page you'll find 95 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sprightliness, such as: activity, animation, ardor, birr, dash, and drive.

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How to use sprightliness in a sentence

  • She was shorter by a half-head than her darker cousin, and made up in sprightliness what she lacked of Ruth's gentle dignity.

    Mistress Wilding | Rafael Sabatini
  • How should one understand that the tones which seemed so harsh and jarring belonged in truth to a very code of sprightliness?

  • They made him stay to dinner and spend the rest of the day there, and by the evening he had recovered all his usual sprightliness.

    Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. Farrar
  • Pick-Me-Up devotes itself to the humour of the music-hall, and is probably not largely beholden to women for its sprightliness.

    Journalism for Women | E.A. Bennett
  • Her charmingly developed figure had that sprightliness which Spanish women alone possess.

    The Guide of the Desert | Gustave Aimard

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