sprightly
IPA: sprˈaɪtɫi
adjective
- Animated, gay, or vivacious; lively, spirited.
- Of a person: full of life and vigour, especially with a light and springy step.
- Especially of an older person: energetic and in good health; spry.
- (obsolete, rare) Of or relating to a sprite; ghostly, spectral.
adverb
- In a lively and vigorous way; sprightlily.
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Examples of "sprightly" in Sentences
- Her conversation is always sprightly.
- The Elfin should appear alert, sprightly and vigorous.
- I think the answer is for the nominator to be sprightly.
- Robert Cunninghame Graham remained sprightly even in his 80s.
- The sprightly lion exemplifies friendship, respect and excellence.
- Bubbly, chirpy and sprightly Lakshmi fills the home with happiness.
- He is wily, sprightly, and willing to have fun at the expense of others.
- Doughnut secretly wishes to be as athletic and sprightly as his friend Tim.
- But for all its sprightly touches, the picture finally runs out of notions.
- She looks very sprightly for a 110 year old but that's hardly unprecidented.
- Peter Manso: erm, I was using "sprightly" as a compliment - as in, "energetic" etc.
- Small but vital: She hasn't thrown a shoe at me yet for calling her "sprightly," but maybe she should.
- By this time I had my black wardrobe more or less together, and had learned not to say, “Well, hi there!” in sprightly tones.
- Known for her "sprightly" comedies, Centlivre published a total of 19 plays in her lifetime, including The Busy Body (1709) and The
- It was all "sprightly" -- that was Murray's tone -- but also it was cordial; and it referred to Thyrsis 'earlier novel, "The Hearer of Truth", as "that brilliant piece of work".
- To call Capote's profile of Brando "sprightly" is not too bright; if anything, this is the best single short piece of its kind, plus which Capote performed the near-impossible -- he got the normally guarded Brando to open up.
- The letters contain many particulars of her life, together with many anecdotes hitherto unknown or forgotten, told with a saucy vivacity which is charming, and an air vividly recalling the sprightly, arch demeanour, and black, sparkling eyes of the fair Queen of Navarre.
- To frame a system which shall suit the condition of our country and the genius of its government, which shall develop the faculties of the mind and improve the good dispositions of the heart; which shall embrace in its views the rich and the poor, the dull and the sprightly is a work of great magnitude and requires details to give it efficacy, which the little time allowed to your committee
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