half-playfully
- 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
“Because the lodestone, the magnet of my heart was here,” he answered half-playfully, half-tenderly.
From The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West by Barbour, A. Maynard (Anna Maynard)
A little daughter half-playfully and half-wilfully, announced her intention to follow her own pleasure in a certain case.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall
Fifine at the Fair, like Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, is one of Browning's apologetic soliloquies—the soliloquy of an epicurean who seeks half-playfully to justify upon moral grounds an infidelity into which he afterwards actually falls.
From Robert Browning by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
"Aren't you stretching that a little, my dear?" he evaded half-playfully.
From The Secret of the Storm Country by Hitchcock, Lucius W.
