playful
adjective
full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
half-playfully
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a word derived from
playful.
Example Sentences
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The question finally becomes a kind of game as Author Amory half-playfully indicts Sherman Billingsley, Aristotle Onassis, Antony Armstrong-Jones and a slew of others.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Do you say that to the woman, or the actress?" asked she, half-playfully.
From Riven Bonds. Vol. I. A Novel, in Two Volumes by E. Werner
"Aren't you stretching that a little, my dear?" he evaded half-playfully.
From The Secret of the Storm Country by Lucius W. Hitchcock
Somehow the conversation presently turned upon love and marriage, and she lectured them, half-playfully, half seriously, upon the duties of husbands.
From Elsie's Motherhood by Martha Finley
She had told him more than once, half-playfully, that if he wanted anything done, he must tell her himself.
From Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
