humoursome
Britishadjective
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capricious; fanciful
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inclined to humour (someone)
Example Sentences
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There never was such a genial and humoursome face, so full of fun and humanity, as that which looked down on the speechless Speug.
From Young Barbarians by Ian Maclaren
He treats us, in Lady Beauchamp, as perverse humoursome babies, loving power, yet not knowing how to use it.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson
The little man glanced up at my cousin with a humoursome gleam in his eyes.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Make-Bates, distant Relations, poor Kinsmen, and indigent Followers, are the Fry which support the Oeconomy of an humoursome rich Man.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
And the nose is one mass of humoursome corrugations.
From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee
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