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  • adverb in a spunky manner

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Examples

  • You can imagine I might have freaked out just a tad at the discovery of little black dots spunkily racing through Edward's fur.

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

  • You can imagine I might have freaked out just a tad at the discovery of little black dots spunkily racing through Edward's fur.

    Much Ado About Fleas 2005

  • And when she set her little foot on the accelerator the car had jumped off spunkily, and their two heads had jerked back like marionettes worked by a single string.

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • Immediately and rather spunkily she had borne him a son and, as if completely devitalized by the magnificence of this performance, she had thenceforth effaced herself within the shadowy dimensions of the nursery.

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • Immediately and rather spunkily she had borne him a son and, as if completely devitalized by the magnificence of this performance, she had thenceforth effaced herself within the shadowy dimensions of the nursery.

    The Beautiful and Damned 1918

  • And when she set her little foot on the accelerator the car had jumped off spunkily, and their two heads had jerked back like marionettes worked by

    The Beautiful and Damned 1918

  • Cecily crimsoned and sat up facing Mr. Campbell spunkily.

    The Golden Road 1908

  • "I don't have to be an old maid," she snapped spunkily.

    Miss Minerva and William Green Hill Frances Boyd Calhoun 1888

  • Mary K. continues to spunkily sing-talk about little Henry, that he was in the attic "… with only dust to lick / not even a book or old clothes to eat / six long days … stuck in the attic / not a day more could he have lived …", with the end result being Henry's death.

    DOA 2009

  • The speech would have been sarcastically and spunkily delivered, no doubt, and would have probably caused us to be bombed by someone.

    FUTURISM NOW 2008

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