Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a spirited or lively manner; with spirit, strength, or animation.

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  • adverb In a spirited manner; with spirit; enthusiastically.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a spirited or lively manner; with animation and vivacity

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Examples

  • After we left the children, we marched near a guy who carried an orange stuffed chair on his head -- he paused occasionally to sit in it -- and several disabled folks who spiritedly rolled their wheelchairs.

    Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Why Occupy Oakland Persists In Searching For A Home Rita Nakashima Brock 2012

  • After we left the children, we marched near a guy who carried an orange stuffed chair on his head -- he paused occasionally to sit in it -- and several disabled folks who spiritedly rolled their wheelchairs.

    Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Why Occupy Oakland Persists In Searching For A Home Rita Nakashima Brock 2012

  • After we left the children, we marched near a guy who carried an orange stuffed chair on his head -- he paused occasionally to sit in it -- and several disabled folks who spiritedly rolled their wheelchairs.

    Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Why Occupy Oakland Persists In Searching For A Home Rita Nakashima Brock 2012

  • After we left the children, we marched near a guy who carried an orange stuffed chair on his head -- he paused occasionally to sit in it -- and several disabled folks who spiritedly rolled their wheelchairs.

    Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Why Occupy Oakland Persists In Searching For A Home Rita Nakashima Brock 2012

  • After we left the children, we marched near a guy who carried an orange stuffed chair on his head -- he paused occasionally to sit in it -- and several disabled folks who spiritedly rolled their wheelchairs.

    Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Why Occupy Oakland Persists In Searching For A Home Rita Nakashima Brock 2012

  • Every time the police have arrested someone who ‘publicly spiritedly’ stepped in when a little old lady was getting her bag snatched, every time the police have arrest someone who ‘responsibly’ confronted a burglar in their home, every time something like this happens, that public spirit ebbs away.

    The Single Measure Of Public Confidence « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • In "My Jerry Saltz Problem," a spiritedly discursive philippic in the New Criterion about the changing nature of art criticism, James Panero articulates how disgruntled print journalists and traditional art critics feel about new media such as blogs, Twitter, and Facebook.

    Sharon L. Butler: Jerry Saltz's Burden Sharon L. Butler 2011

  • In "My Jerry Saltz Problem," a spiritedly discursive philippic in the New Criterion about the changing nature of art criticism, James Panero articulates how disgruntled print journalists and traditional art critics feel about new media such as blogs, Twitter, and Facebook.

    Sharon L. Butler: Jerry Saltz's Burden Sharon L. Butler 2011

  • I find it fascinating to listen to a world-famous foul-mouthed angry crank denouncing mean-spiritedness and coarseness and singing the praises of the intellect as he mean-spiritedly swears his way through an anecdote about football that somehow ends the oldest debate in human history.

    Harlan Ellison on God 2009

  • After we left the children, we marched near a guy who carried an orange stuffed chair on his head -- he paused occasionally to sit in it -- and several disabled folks who spiritedly rolled their wheelchairs.

    Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Why Occupy Oakland Persists In Searching For A Home Rita Nakashima Brock 2012

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