Spirited
With it
Both terms in one sentence
- This also means that people can, on occasion, do something generally mean-spirited to someone else in public, and potentially get away with it if it appears to have been a mistake.
Source: Contrived Clumsiness - In The Breakfast Club, when John Bender has a "bender moment", stabbing his knife into the table and giving a long-winded mean-spirited speech, Allison (the weird girl) pulls the knife out of the table and makes off with it while he's talking.
- Chalet School: Mary-Lou Trelawney has some Spirited Young Lady tendencies - she's notorious for saying whatever pops into her head and getting away with it, and unlike many other girls, she's more interested in a career than marriage.
Source: Spirited Young Lady
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