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spirited

If something or someone is spirited, they are lively; they are animated. They were very spirited on Christmas morning.

spirited

displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness (= enlivened) made lively or spirited a meal enlivened by the music a spirited debate (= bouncing, bouncy, peppy) marked by lively action a bouncing gait bouncy tunes the peppy and interesting talk a spirited dance (= game) willing to face danger

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Simple sentences

Tom is spirited.
Mary is a free-spirited young woman.

Movie subtitles

Spirited horse.
Maybe one of his vampire friends flew in and spirited him away!
Scarlett's just high-spirited and vivacious.
He was going away at the end of the half-year. if not sooner, and was more spirited and independent than before.
They're so high-spirited.
It was for me that Marie Corbin spirited away morphine from the pharmacy.
An unconscious man spirited away through a bead curtain. He's gone, that's all.
And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine, seem frosty?
So they were just spirited away?
She's a Christian, and Christians have spirited her away.
It's good for boys to be spirited.
You're a spirited one!
Was he a little low-spirited?
You know that horse is just too spirited for any woman to ride.
He was going away at the end of the half-year if not sooner, and was more spirited and independent than before.
Spirited little thing, isn't she?
I think you told her a line. That mare is more spirited than Lozana.
You're a spirited one.
Aside from your sad failure to give throat to spirited battle cries, did your behaviour differ from that of other men in your company?
High-spirited, isn't she?
Still gaily spirited?
I am always glad to see a spirited bull and, uh, as for the injuries,. don't worry.
Aside from your sad failure to give throat to spirited battle cries, was your behavior different in any respect from that of the other men in your company?
You're spirited to the very end I see.
This does not mean that he is a petty, mean-spirited man.
I ask you as a public-spirited citizen!
A pedlar who was a proud, honourable and spirited man who left his ancestoral country in Europe in an early age.
Hard spirited I see.
How could she allow herself to be spirited away?

News and current affairs

The agreements that emerged in 1992 at the first Rio summit were good ones: thoughtful, far-sighted, public-spirited, and focused on global priorities.
The art is not necessarily even displayed anywhere: It may well be spirited off to a temperature- and humidity-controlled storage vault in Switzerland or Luxembourg.
The third is less honorable, and likely to fail: it relies on the dangerously weak premise that the party in power's political adversaries will be more public-spirited and less ruthless when they return to government.
Intelligent speeches, spirited debates and clever slogans were conspicuous by their absence in this election.
The enthusiasm is obvious, and the campaign is already under way and highly spirited.
Gone, for the most part, are the colorful rogues and public-spirited idealists who used to liven up parliamentary politics.
Given Bo's gift for dazzling an audience, his allies must have felt confident that a spirited defense would serve him well, both legally and politically.
They bridle at a government that must do unpopular things and that also looks narrow and mean-spirited.
In Africa, this will not be possible until a new breed of genuinely public-spirited leaders emerges.
Mean-spirited and partisan, Dick Cheney was one of America's most powerful vice presidents.

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