larkiness
- a word derived from lark.
Example Sentences
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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
‘Not much larkiness here,’ he thought, and asked a transient waiter for champagne.
From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew
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)
It’s a sign the nat’ral larkiness in yer’s coming back.”
From Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills by Groome, William H. C.
