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spryly
adverb
uk /ˈspraɪ.li/ us /ˈspraɪ.li/
If someone, especially an older person, moves spryly, they move quickly and energetically:
Despite the heat, some people in their 90s ambled around as spryly as kids.
He arrived at her side just as she had spryly stepped up onto the kerb.
He hops spryly into a blue pickup truck with a cracked windscreen.
In my clinic, I see some 90-year-olds who jump spryly on and off the examining table like 40-year-olds.
The demonstrators - students, labourers, grandmothers - spryly danced around a large bonfire.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Energetic and lively
ablaze
alive
astir
barnstorming
be alive and well/kickingidiom
be as fresh as a daisyidiom
be full of beansidiom
boisterous
crackling
freshness
friskily
frisky
frolic
frolicsome
fury
re-energize
refreshed
refreshingly
rejuvenate
rejuvenation
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