more sportive

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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

He was a philosopher, and was in the habit of making many of his tenets minister to his amusement, when in his more sportive and genial moods.

From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian

I speak not of their commercial enterprise and its gross equipage, but of ice-fishing in its more sportive and desultory form, as it is pursued by country boys and the incorrigible village idler.

From Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things by Van Dyke, Henry

A light, familiar grace, and mild unpretending pathos are the characteristics of his more sportive or serious writings, whether in poetry or prose.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William