more sportive
Example Sentences
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And is there a consciousness more sportive and splendid than Tom Stoppard’s?
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2018
Almost at its door is a stream stocked with rainbow trout �a fish far more sportive than Adirondack pike.
From Time Magazine Archive
The words "Winder," "Bender," "Twister," "Topper," and "Stunner," might be borrowed to designate money, which itself should change its present correct appellation for the more sportive and appropriate title of Blunt.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Reports of experiments, as full and as prompt as the telegraphic reports of cricket in our more sportive atmosphere, will go about the world.
From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
And here we find that the fancy is not more sportive in dreams, than are the poets in their descriptions of her nocturnal vagaries.
From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An
