ludic

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  1. adjective Of or relating to play or playfulness: "Fiction . . . now makes [language] the center of its reflexive concern, and explodes in ludic, parodic, ironic forms” (Ihab Hassan).

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  • They still had hopes that the trainer had for some reason taken out the horse for early exercise, but on ascending the knoll near the house, from which all the neighbouring moors were visible, they not only could see no signs of the missing favourite, but they perceived something which warned them that they were in the presence of a tragedy. —  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • "I am afraid that whatever theory we state has very grave objections to it," returned my companion. —  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • A row naturally ensued. —  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • "And everything under your turnout pants ..." —  The Pull of the Moon
  • Danni couldn't put her finger on it. —  The Pull of the Moon
 

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  1. French ludique, from Latin lūdus, play; see leid- in Indo-European roots.
 

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