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high-spirited

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1. high-spirited - Adjective

2. high-spirited - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Full of spirit or natural fire; haughty; courageous; impetuous; not brooking restraint or opposition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. Ovid

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. Vincent van Gogh

I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies. W. H. Auden

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader. Vivienne Westwood

Francis lived the high-spirited life typical of a wealthy young man, even fighting as a soldier for Assisi. citation In 1201, he joined a military expedition against Perugia and was taken as a prisoner at Collestrada, spending a year as a captive. Source: Internet

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