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sprightly

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1. sprightly - Adjective

2. sprightly - Adverb

4. sprightly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. Michel de Montaigne

Ten thousand saw I at a glance; Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. William Wordsworth

.. her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. Henry James

Without his work there's no Christ's sacrifice to feed our faith, And without him no pope Or emperor can keep alive, No wine-giving, sprightly king Of notable prudence, no living man. Iolo Goch

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

a sprightly young girl Source: Internet

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