humoursome
Britishadjective
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capricious; fanciful
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inclined to humour (someone)
Example Sentences
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Mr. McLean, as stout and humoursome as of yore, had solemnly promised his wife to be jocular but not too jocular.
From Tommy and Grizel by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
"Pray be not so morose or humoursome," he wrote, "as to refuse all things you have not known so long as Christ's College."
From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
A sublime utterance, full of humoursome matter, if it had been a time for humours.
From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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 Maclaren, Ian
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