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

So used, it breathes the same feeling as "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb"—or the more sportive adage, that "the fairies take care of children and tipsy folk."

From Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

In English literature Dryden is the writer who most recalls him, though rather in his higher than in his more sportive moods.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas