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

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

The air was clear and invigorating; I was feeling braced up and buoyant; and as for Jip and Bang, I never saw them in a more sportive, energetic mood.

From Betty Grier by Waugh, Joseph Laing

It was impossible for anything to be more sportive, yet more inoffensive, than this dog.

From Anecdotes of Dogs by Jesse, Edward