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Meanings of playful manner in English

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Usage of playful manner in English
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I tell you what we'll do, she continued in a playful manner.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
2
But she looked at him directly, without response to his playful manner.
The Gray Dawn
3
He caressed his keepers, and threw the dirt about in a playful manner.
Stories of Animal Sagacity
4
Richard was going to meet her and embrace her in his playful manner.
Bertha Garlan
5
A playful manner was not seemly on the part of a Sir Feal.
The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor
6
And he can show an often sensitive and playful manner.
The Guardian
7
His direct and playful manner of speech amused her, and also seemed to reassure her.
The Slim Princess
8
This she asked in the playful manner which she knew he would take in good part.
An Old Man's Love
9
There's no real way of tackling something so quaintly ingenuous in an ironic or playful manner.
The Irish Times
10
I cannot convey to you a notion of the pretty, playful manner in which it was told.
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 07
11
Her playful manner at once deserted her.
Can You Forgive Her?
12
There is a story told of my father which points to his playful manner here alluded to.
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
13
Lucia cloaked her rage under the most playful manner, as she ran into the music-room through the hall.
Queen Lucia
14
Culturally nods are given to cinema, philosophy and the like in the casual, playful manner of a well-researched blog.
The Irish Times
15
His playful manner had gone.
East of the sun
16
Arthur, entranced by the playful manner with which she disposed of friend and foe, was aghast at this outbreak.
Visionaries
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