enterprising
adjective
ready to undertake projects of importance or difficulty, or untried schemes; energetic in carrying out any undertaking.
enterprisingly
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a word derived from
enterprising.
Example Sentences
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These are Yvan’s people, however, and as this damning portrait of private banking reveals, he’s ready to navigate them as enterprisingly in the worst of times as he would in the best of times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2021
It was created, according to Gawker, on Monday by “by enterprisingly sleazy party photographer Kirill Bichutsky.”
From Forbes ● Dec. 12, 2012
But few of us knew that he had done his own free adaptation of Chekhov's play, premiered in Vancouver in 1981 and now enterprisingly unearthed by Phil Willmott.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2010
Last week, as a great and novel civic philanthropy which aroused nationwide excitement, Chinese Mayor Wu Te-chen of Shanghai enterprisingly began to marry poor Chinese in batches for only seven dollars per couple.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was prudently but not enterprisingly led, did little harm, and returned with slight loss.
From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by
