What is "zesty"

Usage examples of "zesty".

They relished their recklessness, and she had come to understand that it was not an embracing of death, as some feminists insisted, but a zesty drive to slam up against the walls of the world, test the limits.

The grace and authority of his prose, the driving characters combined with zesty invention to demand immediate attention.

The jays were going cuckoo over the Cheezie Nuggies, most definitely savoring the zesty cheddary richness, scurrying back to their nests to regurgitate from their crops their loads of dull little seeds and romping expectantly back to my windowsill for a fresh new load of Nug-gies.

I offered to take her directly home, but she insisted the zesty sea air was what she needed.

What the waitress brought me was a plate piled with weeds and seeds, topped with a zesty pink dressing with specks.

Oh, I have missed Narn cookingthe pungent spices, the zesty meats, the crunchy grainsit is truly the tastiest food in the galaxy.

He relished the zesty tingle as the crisp morning air caressed his naked body and washed the last dregs of sleep from him.

The children sat with their eyes downcast, eating a tasty dish called shrimp paella over rice that Juanita had just served along with a long loaf of crusty bread and a zesty arugula, tomato, onion, and mozzarella salad.

There was a lightness about the way she moved, a bounce and a glide that seemed filled with a zesty lust for life.

The spicier varieties, usually designer ketchups, are zesty on a plastic spoon but obscure the loveliness of a crisp French fry, which the blander, mainstream brands perfectly complement.

Jazzica's Boni Maroni training enabled her to tell, via nosesniff smellsense, that what was being agricultured were actually crude varieties of desert chicken pot pies, poverty veal parmigiana, and mutant Mexican-style shredded beefs in a zesty sauce.

I was wrestling with the choice of 'plump shrimp, litely battered & served with our chef's own secret sause,' or 'tender sea scallops, batter-coated, litely sauteed and served with a zesty sweet 'n' sour dip,' when Dwight Shales materialized at my table.

His feelings of depression and doom gradually sank to a new and perhaps ultimate nadir, and in a desperate effort to wrench them up he deliberately imagined to himself the zestiest tavern he knew in Lankhmar—a great gray cellar all a-flare with torches, wine streaming and spilling, tankards and coins a-clink, voices braying and roaring, poppy fumes a-twirl, naked girls writhing in lascivious dances.

The lights faded somewhat on the upper terraces, though not on the lower where the monotonous six-toned music of the tops kept reassuringly on, and the two heroes entered each into that dark lustrous realm where all thoughts of wounds are forgotten and all memories of even the zestiest Lankhmar wine-cellar grow flat, and the Sea, our cruel mother and loving mistress, repays all debts.