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
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 Julian Hawthorne
Reports of experiments, as full and as prompt as the telegraphic reports of cricket in our more sportive atmosphere, will go about the world.
From A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
Think how much more sportive that will be!
From Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War by S. B. Pearse
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