lark
noun
any of numerous, chiefly Old World oscine birds, of the family Alaudidae, characterized by an unusually long, straight hind claw, especially the skylark, Alauda arvensis.
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
But, indeed, this Imperial debauch has in it something worse than the mere larkiness which is my present topic; it has an element of real self-flattery and of sin.
From Alarms and Discursions 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
"I have seen larkiness dawn in them for an instant at some recollection, even when they were dying."
From Tongues of Conscience by Hichens, Robert Smythe
