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Meanings of sportive in English
Synonyms
Examples for "rollicking"
Examples for "rollicking"
1
The rollicking new number 'Party Boy' with its jealous and threatening sentiments.
2
It was the music of love and youth; joyous, rollicking, pulsing music.
3
At one stage they were rollicking along at seven runs an over.
4
A rollicking opening phase had it all: goals, shocks and excitement aplenty.
5
Also check out his rollicking Crystal Castles' remix on his Soundcloud page.
1
At home, in the woods, he is the most frolicsome and loquacious.
2
But Elsie would never be the frolicsome child of the past again.
3
He knew he was the quicker, and the knowledge made him frolicsome.
4
Gnulemah was in a frolicsome humor, the reaction of her foregoing solemnity.
5
Charles was twenty-one- aboyin feeling and temperament, a frolicsome, heedless boy.
1
With her slightness, her coltish, slightly androgynous air, she was a true gamine.
2
My chin comes to his shoulder, we are both dainty, long-limbed, coltish: well-matched.
3
She'd been eleven when the Americans invaded, and hardly even coltish.
4
They watched as the girl, long-limbed and coltish, approached Cameron near the exit.
5
They're full of life, and coltish spirits, and dance, and song.
1
The filly was well rested, frolicky.
2
It's frolicky to hear him.
3
But a little too frolicky that air.-Yethave I prepared my beloved to expect in you both great vivacity and quality-freedom
4
Frado is such a wild, frolicky thing, and means to do jest as she's a mind to; she won't go if she don't want to.
Usage of sportive in English
1
The red coals passed away and the sportive flames ceased to dance.
2
The coals glowed deep red, and the sportive flames danced before him.
3
The Fates have always been sportive so far as I was concerned.
4
I am not in a sportive humour now: where is the money?
5
His fancy was brilliant and sportive, and his imagination varied and fantastic.
6
Ideally, of course, weeds should never reach this state of sportive rankness.
7
It manufactures a range of children's clothing in sportive and day-to-day styles.
8
Gideon Fish after gorging himself with jelly-cake, was inclined to be sportive.
9
Many poems, serious and sportive, appeared, of which one only has lived.
10
The gay frolic of her sportive flight set them flashing like diamonds.
11
He shook his head in sportive refusal; she still appeared anxious, but acquiesced.
12
The day came when Mrs. Todd risked her life in our sportive company.
13
Nature must have been in a sportive mood when she evolved the durian.
14
The child-nature in her is so sunny, sportive, so bent on harmless mischief.
15
A certain girl, excelling in her charms unrivalled, dallies with the sportive Krishna
16
It was now not a sportive combat, but a war to the death.
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