larkier

It's just launched in the US as a rather larkier, jazzed up series on the Starz channel.

Michael Giltz: DVDs: Arthur -- The Movie I'll Never Watch Michael Giltz 2011

"Feeling a bit larkier than usual this morning, aren't you?" he inquired with what was merely a pretense at carelessness.

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

Why they're no more than what you might call hotels a bit larkier than what other Hotels are.

Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Yes, the comedies of Judd Apatow are often very funny, but in their sniggering anxiety about entering the "real world" (a larkier take on a topic also close to the heart of Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson and Brooklyn-based Michel Gondry) reflect a malaise that palsies US culture more broadly.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

Perhaps only in a year filled with movies like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Stagecoach, Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, the larkier but somewhat similar Gunga Dun, Ninotchka, of course Gone With The Wind and so many others could The Four Feathers be relatively overshadowed.

Michael Giltz: DVDs: 1939 -- Still Hollywood's Greatest Year Michael Giltz 2011