All 7 Uses of
vivacious
in
Bleak House
- All this and a great deal more he told us, not only with the utmost brilliancy and enjoyment, but with a certain vivacious candour— speaking of himself as if he were not at all his own affair, as if Skimpole were a third person, as if he knew that Skimpole had his singularities but still had his claims too, which were the general business of the community and must not be slighted.†
Chpt 4-6
- He was as vivacious as ever and told us he was very industrious, but I was not easy in my mind about him.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- The light vivacious tone of fashionable life which is usually assumed by Mr. Weevle sits so ill upon him to-night that he abandons that and his whiskers together, and after looking over his shoulder, appears to yield himself up a prey to the horrors again.†
Chpt 31-33
- "Oh, because and because!" replied Richard in his vivacious way.†
Chpt 37-39
- His pictorial tastes were consulted, I observed, in their respective styles of wearing their hair, the Beauty daughter being in the classic manner, the Sentiment daughter luxuriant and flowing, and the Comedy daughter in the arch style, with a good deal of sprightly forehead, and vivacious little curls dotted about the corners of her eyes.†
Chpt 43-45
- At first I found Mr. Skimpole there, on two or three occasions, idly playing the piano and talking in his usual vivacious strain.†
Chpt 61-63
- Then, indeed, does she captivate all hearts by her condescension, by her girlish vivacity, and by her skipping about as in the days when the hideous old general with the mouth too full of teeth had not cut one of them at two guineas each.†
Chpt 66-67
Definition:
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(vivacious) having an engaging liveliness -- when said of a person, typically said of a female