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sportive

adjective as in lively

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With trees swaying in the gentle breeze and birds and butterflies gamboling in the setting sun, it would be foolish not to fall into sportive line.

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She was strumming her guitar and in the middle of a sportive preamble to the first surprise song of the show.

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“With no thought of buying, the eye is sportive and generous; it creates; it adorns; it enhances,” Woolf writes.

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Etape Loch Ness is Scotland's largest closed road cycle sportive, taking cyclists on a route around the Loch, finishing in Inverness.

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The sportive rhythm of the show doesn’t preclude tragedy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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