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more sportive

ADJECTIVE

playful and fair

Synonyms

WEAK

antic coltish considerate devil-may-care frisky frolicsome full of fun game gamesome gay generous impish jaunty joyous larkish lively merry mischievous reasonable roguish rollicking sportspersonlike sprightly square wild

Antonyms

WEAK

unfair unplayful unsporting

ADJECTIVE

lively

Synonyms

WEAK

boon festive frisky frolicsome game gamesome jocular merry prankish sprightly wanton

Antonyms

WEAK

solemn staid

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

Think how much more sportive that will be!

From Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War by Pearse, S. B.

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

In others, again, it flashes and sparkles, more sportive than tender.

From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Setoun, Gabriel