Example sentences for: playfulness

How can you use “playfulness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His secret weapon was, perhaps, his playfulness, his sense of being slyly amused by a mad world and his own mad self.

  • Yet, as we all know, there are many instances of playful language, which we encounter every day, and there is no sound reason to reject playfulness solely on the grounds that it is “unscholarly” to be jocular.

  • It's not a very warm or kind world, or one with much room for originality or playfulness or waywardness or even what I would call "romance."

  • In all the sections of the show, even the least conducive to frivolity, there is an element of playfulness and oddball aesthetic daring.

  • One must be very cautious in proposing etymologies that attribute the origin of a word to playfulness or frivolity: they often turn out to be folk etymologies and totally empty of anything more than hollow speculation.


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