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English
Etymology
From sportive + -ly.
Adverb
sportively (comparative more sportively, superlative most sportively)
- In a sportive way
1880, Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac:Perhaps to treat the matter lightly and sportively would be the course most likely to encourage her to explain it.
1912, James Brendan Connolly, Wide Courses:"Then you got time, ain't you, to buy a girl a glass o'--" She stopped and winked sportively.
2006 October 13, Ryan Hubbard, “Chelsea Handler”, in Chicago Reader:At Zanies last May she sportively bickered with the vocal crowd.
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