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sprightliness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | life, liveliness, spirit |
| Type of | spiritedness, animation, invigoration, brio, vivification |
| Has types | ebullience, elan, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, exuberance, ginger, airiness, irrepressibility, jauntiness, muscularity, pep, peppiness, pertness, smartness, vigor, vigour, vim, high-spiritedness, alacrity, breeziness, briskness, buoyancy, delicacy |
| Derivation | sprightly |
Examples of sprightliness
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Bjork's work, in contrast, has been characterized by an insistent sprightliness.
From the time.com
Emily Gravett's illustrations add a dash of sprightliness to the whole.
From the guardian.co.uk
Superannuation, rather than sprightliness, is ostensibly in vogue.
From the economist.com
Burly for a triathlete, Vuckovic had been running with a sprightliness that bordered on exuberance.
From the time.com
There's no infectious nippiness, no sharp sprightliness about the steering, nothing to really get you wired.
From the cars.uk.msn.com
Gradually his humor and sprightliness returned.
From the time.com
Marsalis takes a breezy high chorus, Galliano's keys throb with street life and Rimmer joins in the sprightliness.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
One yearns for more quotations and pictures, and for more sprightliness and crackle from Gay's narrative itself.
From the washingtonpost.com
In place of the weighty textures and stately pace that mark modern interpretations, Gardiner offers a Haydn-like sprightliness.
From the time.com
- Liveliness: animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
- The property of being sprightly
