sportive
adjective
playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry.
sportiveness
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a word derived from
sportive.
Example Sentences
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Like Sister Sylvester’s 2014 karaoke play, “Dead Behind These Eyes,” this show sugarcoats its serious intent with oddball sportiveness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2015
This sportiveness, not common in algae, makes it an entertaining pet.
From Time Magazine Archive
There had always been method of a sort in his sportiveness.
From Time Magazine Archive
But its chief charm to Evert Winthrop lay in the fact that it had in it so much more of the sportiveness of the child than of the consciousness of the woman.
From East Angels by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Caliban will persist in the belief that the visible system was created in Setebos's moment of being ill at ease and in cruel sportiveness.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
