gusto
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Synonyms & Antonyms for gusto
Synonyms
beans, bounce, brio, dash, drive, dynamism, energy, esprit, gas, get-up-and-go, ginger, go, hardihood, juice, life, moxie, oomph, pep, punch, sap, snap, starch, verve, vigor, vim, vinegar, vitality, zing, zip
Antonyms
lethargy, listlessness, sluggishness, torpidity
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Both modern and retro in design, the loft is home to an assemblage of art and design pieces that capture the zeitgeist of the ’70s with gusto. — Vogue, "Inside Alan Faena’s All-White Hideout, Where Fashion Week’s Finest Came to Play," 6 Sep. 2019 The day before the exhibit opened this week, a video crew was filming Vito Gioia, the Kohl’s director of visitor experience, playing the exhibit with all the gusto of a 5-year-old. — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, "Hit ‘Nature Cat’ kids PBS show gets the museum treatment at the Kohl," 31 July 2019 Think of Rickey Henderson, who, at the age of forty-six, already a Hall of Famer, played with the gusto of a prospect for the San Diego Surf Dogs of the Golden Baseball League. — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, "Jim Bouton Was Baseball’s Misunderstood Evangelist," 11 July 2019 Cue Adam Selman Sport, a unisex athleisure collection that officially replaces his kittenishly glamorous women’s line, which hit e-retailers last week with all the spandex gusto of a Jane Fonda video. — Max Berlinger, WSJ, "With Adam Selman Sport, Rihanna’s Tour Designer Hits the Gym," 29 Jan. 2019 But Cage plays even the blandest pulp material with soul and gusto, as though the pathetic grudges of a petty criminal were the stuff of epic drama. — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, "Review: Nicolas Cage has ‘A Score to Settle’; plus ‘The Operative’ and more," 1 Aug. 2019 In honor of the show’s 11 Emmy nominations, Amazon has created a Los Angeles pop-up that channels the titular character’s guinea-pig-themed cafe with gusto. — Caroline Tew, EW.com, "You can hold adorable guinea pigs at Fleabag-inspired pop-up cafe in Los Angeles," 7 Aug. 2019 The 28th annual Heritage Days parade marched through downtown Olmsted Falls with gusto – until a train or two slowed it down. — cleveland.com, "Trains stop the parade, but not the fun: Olmsted Dates and Data," 4 Aug. 2019 Nearly all serious professional eaters do this, and with such gusto that the food arrives at their waiting mouths nearly pre-chewed, like the regurgitated offerings of a mother bird. — Aj Willingham, CNN, "The best scarfing methods at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest," 4 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gusto.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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