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Antonyms for sportively


Grammar : Adv
Spell : spawr-tiv, spohr-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈspɔr tɪv, ˈspoʊr-



Definition of sportively

Origin :
  • 1580s, from sport + -ive. Related: Sportively; sportiveness.
  • As in cheerfully : adv cheerily
  • As in happily : adv with joy, pleasure
Example sentences :
  • I'm sportively pretending that I can press it back into shape.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Addressing her sportively, Krishna said, For whom are you carrying that unguent?
  • Extract from : « Curiosities of Superstition » by W. H. Davenport Adams
  • This is said gayly, or sportively, as keeping up the idea of a knight-errant.
  • Extract from : « The Lady of the Lake » by Sir Walter Scott
  • "We seem to have drifted into the world of nothing," says I sportively.
  • Extract from : « The Admirable Lady Biddy Fane » by Frank Barrett
  • Don Pedro, the Prince of Arragon, sportively offers himself.
  • Extract from : « Garrick's Pupil » by Auguston Filon
  • "I promise to be careful to obey orders," he answered, sportively.
  • Extract from : « Elsie's Womanhood » by Martha Finley
  • But instead of sportively performing, these two friars insisted, with sedate countenances, that they were men of God.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of Monks and Monasteries » by Alfred Wesley Wishart
  • "Early Scotch woodcock, I suppose," says I, sportively alluding to the proverb.
  • Extract from : « Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 103, November 26, 1892 » by Various
  • All these quick and lively sallies were said sportively, quite in jest, and with a smile, which showed that he meant only wit.
  • Extract from : « The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 » by Ministry of Education
  • The little fires were sportively burning outside of each teepee, where the morning meal had been prepared.
  • Extract from : « Red Hunters And the Animal People » by Charles A. Eastman

Synonyms for sportively

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