verve
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Synonyms & Antonyms for verve
Synonyms
beans, bounce, brio, dash, drive, dynamism, energy, esprit, gas, get-up-and-go, ginger, go, gusto, hardihood, juice, life, moxie, oomph, pep, punch, sap, snap, starch, vigor, vim, vinegar, vitality, zing, zip
Antonyms
lethargy, listlessness, sluggishness, torpidity
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Examples of verve in a Sentence
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The complications are ludicrous, but the movie navigates them with cheek and verve, and the jokes land with surprising consistency. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: Exuberantly silly ‘Angry Birds Movie 2' flies higher than the first," 15 Aug. 2019 But the nails add an element of opulence that hint at adventurousness, verve, and excitement. — Cate Young, Vox, "Claws is a love letter to the proud, strip mall–fabulous American woman," 2 Aug. 2019 As a 19-year-old competing at the East Coast Championships in Delaware, Wyckoff earned second place in the amateur division and returned to Laguna Beach with the verve to enter the professional leagues. — Daily Pilot, "Last call for the voice of Laguna’s Victoria World Championships of skimboarding," 16 Aug. 2019 Two new installations in San Francisco’s leading museums bring this democratic artistic tradition into the 21st century with verve. — A.c. | San Francisco, The Economist, "The social and political mural goes digital," 5 Aug. 2019 Organized by Courtenay Finn, the chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland and a 2005 CIA graduate, the show is a fine example of institutional cross-pollination and curatorial verve. — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, "Cleveland Institute of Art alumni show hits the eye like a tall, cool drink on a hot summer day," 4 Aug. 2019 There was surely formal kinship — ravishing color, gestural verve — and personal admiration. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, "This Boston artist shunned the limelight. He deserves to be famous.," 1 Aug. 2019 Russia gets most of the attention lately, but never count out China's sophistication and verve. — Brian Barrett, WIRED, "Security News This Week: Myspace Employees Used to Spy on Users," 29 June 2019 Gaga arrived at West Hollywood eatery A.O.C. in a black leather column gown from Anouki’s Fall 2019 collection that continued her exploration of head to toe leather, while adding a new verve. — Vogue, "Lady Gaga's Latest “Leather” Dress Is 100% Vegan," 18 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'verve.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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