bouncing
adjective
stout, strong, or vigorous.
bouncingly
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a word derived from
bouncing.
Example Sentences
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Always bouncingly, sensibly cheery, she seemed to be without a care in the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bush learned when he introduced a bouncingly boyish Dan Quayle to skeptical reviews during the 1988 Republican convention in New Orleans.
From Time Magazine Archive
He talked largely, not to say bouncingly, of the great De Patroque among his friends, who, not to be outdone in their turn, talked to him and to others of the new apostle.
From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various
Mrs. Dowling's spirits had strikingly recovered even before the pair passed from the corridor: she moved almost bouncingly beside her embittered son, and her eyes and all the convolutions of her abundant face were blithe.
From Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
Yet something seemed to denote that she was not quite so comfortably circumstanced, nor so bouncingly attired, as she had been during Cartlett's lifetime.
From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
