Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sprightly or lively manner; with spirit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
sprightful manner.
Etymologies
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sprightful + -ly
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Examples
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Loupgarou, lifting up his mace, advanced one step upon him, and with all his force would have dashed it upon Pantagruel, wherein, to speak to the truth, he so sprightfully carried himself, that, if
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Loupgarou, lifting up his mace, advanced one step upon him, and with all his force would have dashed it upon Pantagruel, wherein, to speak to the truth, he so sprightfully carried himself, that, if
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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