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spunky

[ US /ˈspəŋki/ ]
[ UK /spˈʌŋki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. willing to face danger
  2. showing courage
    the champion is faced with a feisty challenger

How To Use spunky In A Sentence

  • Although Ballet Hispanico presented a trio of premieres, it was Ramon Oller's Bury Me Standing, first seen in 1998, that epitomized the duende of this spunky little company.
  • The Australian Chamber Orchestra is now 28 years old, but under spunky young director/violinist Richard Tongetti, looks and talent have combined to make it one of the world's great ensembles.
  • I'd had lots of friends and classmates back in my high school days who'd seemed a lot like him: the grandkids of Italian and Sicilian immigrants, they were smiling and open-hearted, spunky and pugnacious.
  • She affected to be spunky about her ailments and afflictions, but she was in fact an utterly self - centered valetudinarian.
  • The spunky teen went on to pursue a PhD in neuroscience.
  • Brined pork at Boulevard With farm-raised local Davenport abalone, the Aqua kitchen played an even subtler contrapuntal game, mimicking the challenging texture of this expensive univalve with other naturally spunky foods rich in distinct flavors of their own: pork belly, chanterelle mushrooms and smoked garlic, combined in a reduced "jus" rendered from Manila clams. Bay Watch
  • Obviously you were a headstrong, determined, and… really spunky woman.
  • The old, spunky Madeline was gone and in her place was the submissive shadow of her former self.
  • At 52, Moore is still a spry, spunky performer giving all manner of well-rehearsed guitar hero poses.
  • Me and a friend were kind of flirting with a group of guys from across the room… very spunky guys.
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