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These details hardly distract from the substantive issues raised — often with a wink — amid the show’s larkiness, including the realities of union rules and tensions with management.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2015

He and Baldwin were thrown in prison one night after some larkiness on Third Avenue.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2010

It is hard to see at first sight why so human a thing as leisure and larkiness should always have a religious origin.

From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

‘Not much larkiness here,’ he thought, and asked a transient waiter for champagne.

From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew

At first sight difficult to associate tendency to larkiness with austerity of Member for Oxford University.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir