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zestful

[zest-fuhl] / ˈzɛst fəl /












ADJECTIVE
sapid
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That’s all because we say that most of the interesting stuff is done by volunteerism and entrepreneurship and will, zestful building, not by the coercive powers of the state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

At 40, Lansbury stormed the New York stage in 1966 as the zestful, eccentric star of “Mame,” a part she almost didn’t get because producers perceived her as “that lady who plays everybody’s mother.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2022

Last week, I called and listened to Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee,” then called back and heard a zestful reading of a New York Times excerpt about the Great Seattle Fire, published in 1889.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2020

It follows on the awkwardly zestful Biennial of 2017, which, having been assembled, by and large, before the 2016 national election, seemed pointed toward a future that was abruptly kaput.

From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019

The deliberately ordered supper, enticing in anticipation, had fallen short of the zestful promise in the fact.

From The Price by Francis Lynde




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