sprightly

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

Ms. Lewin has written a sprightly account of writers’ rooms on both sides of the Atlantic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Its cast is exactly the sprightly ensemble needed to land its what-if laughs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

From the outside, it's just a public leisure centre on the edge of town, with sprightly pensioners staying flexible in aerobics classes and excitable kids in for swimming lessons.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

I am transitional; some days I look like a worn-out thirty-five, others like a sprightly fifty.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

In all-wheel-drive form, the RDX is a bit sprightlier around corners than the GV70.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

It begins with “The 1,” a stoic look back at a fizzled romance, which moves at a lope, nudged along by ringing piano chords and one of the album’s sprightlier beats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2020

Crews has also utilised his linebacker physique in more visceral projects, including playing one of the sprightlier members of Sylvester Stallone’s OAP action ensemble The Expendables.

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2018

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

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

Result: one of the sprightliest TV hours of the fall.

From Time Magazine Archive

The whole show pokes fun at auto-mania, is one of the sprightliest in the transportation area.

From Time Magazine Archive

While dramatic series have become drearier, commercials have developed into the sprightliest little plays on television.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cheeriest, sprightliest mortal in the world could not have continued gay in her society.

From She and I, Volume 1 by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson