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/spˈɔːtɪv/
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ADJECTIVE
- relating to or interested in sports
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given to merry frolicking
frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes
How To Use sportive In A Sentence
- But if (to borrow language from the mint of Gorgias86), if only the attendants will bedew us with a frequent mizzle87 of small glasses, we shall not be violently driven on by wine to drunkenness, but with sweet seduction reach the goal of sportive levity. Symposium
- It looks like the supercar is being driven sportively on some California back roads during Monterey Speed Week.
- The FIA's approval for Dubai to host this event ensured that the international sportive communities saw it as a wise decision.
- Although the OED is not a narrative, not scripture, not poetry , it is, nonetheless, transportive.
- If you are caring, honest, sportive, have ambitions to be sense humor, please contact me.
- Though many of them were shilly-shallying to come to the stage, some were sportive enough to take part.
- So how is he going to solve the political, personal and sportive configurations if he makes up his mind?
- I liked her forceful and sportive temperament, and I liked her passion for justice even more. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
- We would have expected a bit more clearance for chubbier, sportive-friendly tyres 25s or maybe even 28s and single mudguard eyelets also wouldn't hurt – performance is never compromised with slightly larger tyres, and the likelihood of a 566 Origin owner doing a wet brevet/grand fondo/sportive is high. Archive 2009-07-01
- For men say that the young of all creatures cannot be quiet in their bodies or in their voices; they are always wanting to move and cry out; some leaping and skipping, and overflowing with sportiveness and delight at something, others uttering all sorts of cries. Laws