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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

Actress Angela Lansbury who stormed the New York stage in 1966 as the zestful, eccentric star of “Mame” and solved endless murders as crime novelist in the TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” died at 96.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 24, 2022

Ami Okumura Jones and Mei Mac, both adults, play the girls with a zestful appetite for experience that never turns cloying, and Dai Tabuchi is infinitely touching as their kindly father.

From New York Times Nov. 3, 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

Hiram dozed over his cigar, having paid zestful attention to the dinner that Jackson Denslow had spread in the galley.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman




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