sprightly
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Another of his horses was named in the Guinness Book of Records for the fastest 10-metre dash while on hind legs -- a sprightly 4.19 seconds.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Its cast is exactly the sprightly ensemble needed to land its what-if laughs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
The legs have not looked as sprightly as they once did.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
Though Godard later came to be synonymous with turgid, obtuse cinema, “Nouvelle Vague” is the opposite: a sprightly, effervescent ode to moviemaking as semi-controlled mischief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
If he had been hoping for a sprightly rhythm, he didn’t get it.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
In all-wheel-drive form, the RDX is a bit sprightlier around corners than the GV70.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
We’ve moved from a static description to a sprightlier one and cut the word count almost in half.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2017
At fifty-two, she is sprightlier than her more serious work suggests, a quality that helps earn the trust of her subjects, whether in Africa or in coal country.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017
Sport and Sport+ offer sprightlier drives, while Normal and Eco conserve fuel.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2016
Miss Whitlaw seemed to lose ten years and become sprightlier.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
And the rhythmic and harmonic quirkiness of the two Contredanses made the sprightliest movements in the Bach, Handel and Muffat works sound staid.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2011
Mary is Debbie Reynolds, giving one of her sprightliest performances as the wickedly witty, nearly divorced wife of Publisher Barry Nelson, who repeats his stage role in sharp, swinging style.
From Time Magazine Archive
Result: one of the sprightliest TV hours of the fall.
From Time Magazine Archive
While dramatic series have become drearier, commercials have developed into the sprightliest little plays on television.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Madame Daunoy, one of the sprightliest of observers, visited the court of Philip IV., she found it was considered shocking among the ladies of the best society to wash the face and hands.
From Castilian Days by Hay, John
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