friskier; friskiest
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Examples of frisky in a Sentence
The kids were frisky after all that candy.
a frisky kid who keeps the class in stitches with his jokes
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Linklater approaches Bernie with a perfectly deft bemusement over an absurd situation, ingeniously rendering the townspeople as a Greek chorus of talking heads and handing the rest over to Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine, who share a frisky comic energy.
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2024
The tour is splashy, jumpy, frisky, occasionally meditative and quick-moving despite its 2 1/2-hour running time.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2024
That would amount to a cooler pace of hiring than in the first three months of the year, but show that job growth remains frisky enough to keep unemployment in check.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 7 June 2024
Vampire Weekend has always had two distinct aspects — its fastidious album work and its frisky live shows — and may soon have three.
—Jon Pareles, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2024
The tour is splashy, jumpy, frisky, occasionally meditative and quick-moving despite its 2 1/2-hour running time.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2024
That would amount to a cooler pace of hiring than in the first three months of the year, but show that job growth remains frisky enough to keep unemployment in check.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 7 June 2024
Vampire Weekend has always had two distinct aspects — its fastidious album work and its frisky live shows — and may soon have three.
—Jon Pareles, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
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“Frisky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frisky. Accessed 30 Jun. 2024.
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