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sportively en · ADV

Etymology

From sportive + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a sportive way
   • Perhaps to treat the matter lightly and sportively would be the course most likely to encourage her to explain it. 1880, Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac:
   • At Zanies last May she sportively bickered with the vocal crowd. 2006 October 13, Ryan Hubbard, “Chelsea Handler”, in Chicago Reader:
   • "Then you got time, ain't you, to buy a girl a glass o'--" She stopped and winked sportively. 1912, James Brendan Connolly, Wide Courses:

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