spry
adjective
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spriest
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Synonyms & Antonyms for spry
Synonyms
agile, featly, feline, graceful, gracile, light, light-footed (also light-foot), lightsome, lissome (also lissom), lithe, lithesome, nimble
Antonyms
awkward, clumsy, gawky, graceless, klutzy, lumbering, ungainly, ungraceful
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Long iron hair, yet the spry gait of some extinct animal. — Smith Henderson, Popular Mechanics, "Olympia," 20 Nov. 2017 Sadly absent is a short BBC film by Kevin Brownlow from 1967, in which the aged but still spry Sternberg discusses and demonstrates his shooting style. — David Mermelstein, WSJ, "‘Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood’ Review: Mining Cinema’s Golden Age," 16 July 2018 Liberal icons Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Dianne Feinstein are both 85, Maxine Waters is 80, Nancy Pelosi is 78 and Bernie Sanders is a spry 77 years old. — Brian Flood, Fox News, "Rosie O'Donnell calls on senior GOP politicians to retire: 'We don't let the 85 year olds carve the turkey'," 21 Sep. 2018 Verisimilitude is enlivened with spry theatricality. — Charles Mcnulty, latimes.com, "A spectacular new 'Uncle Vanya' at San Diego's Old Globe," 21 Feb. 2018 Spider-Man’s fight scenes and aerial acrobatics had a spry kineticism that contrasted with the brawny physicality of Kirby’s compositions. — Andy Webster, New York Times, "Steve Ditko, Influential Comic-Book Artist Who Helped Create Spider-Man, Dies at 90," 7 July 2018 Crowley is a relatively spry 56, but Ocasio-Cortez was an 8-year-old when he was elected to Congress in 1998. — James Hohmann, Washington Post, "The Daily 202: Crowley going down spotlights the looming Democratic identity crisis," 27 June 2018 As an autopsy of one of the darker moments in recent British political disgrace, A Very English Scandal is a spry and surprisingly funny work. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, "Sex, Lies, and Bunnies in A Very English Scandal," 3 July 2018 But Sir Elton, who will bring his farewell tour to The Q on Nov. 3, is 70 and hardly spry. — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, "2018 Grammy Awards had their moments, but the show failed to live up to the hype: Chuck Yarborough," 29 Jan. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'spry.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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