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
"Aren't you stretching that a little, my dear?" he evaded half-playfully.
From The Secret of the Storm Country by Lucius W. Hitchcock
Lorimer shook himself together, as he himself would have expressed it, and touched his friend's arm half-playfully.
From Thelma by Marie Corelli
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
"You are not very polite to me, Mr. Vivian!" she said, half-playfully, half-pettishly.
From Under False Pretences A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
