spunkier; spunkiest
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Examples of spunky in a Sentence
a spunky determination to make the best of a bad situation
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Debra Walton makes a great first impression as spunky, scrappy young Ella, drawing pathos and big laughs in equal measure.
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Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2024
The original movie centers on the life of Riley, a cute, predictably spunky if otherwise decidedly ordinary 11-year-old.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 June 2024
The series centers on Geum Jan-di (Koo Hye-sun), a spunky teen who saves a young man from taking his own life.
—Megan Vick, EW.com, 30 May 2024
Miss Margie was the tall woman with the spunky personality from next door, the one who reached for the little girl each morning over the block wall that separated the Rosteks’ rowhouse on Potomac Street from the Kanieckis’.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
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Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2024
The original movie centers on the life of Riley, a cute, predictably spunky if otherwise decidedly ordinary 11-year-old.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 June 2024
The series centers on Geum Jan-di (Koo Hye-sun), a spunky teen who saves a young man from taking his own life.
—Megan Vick, EW.com, 30 May 2024
Miss Margie was the tall woman with the spunky personality from next door, the one who reached for the little girl each morning over the block wall that separated the Rosteks’ rowhouse on Potomac Street from the Kanieckis’.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
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“Spunky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spunky. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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