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

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

I speak not of their commercial enterprise and its gross equipage, but of ice-fishing in its more sportive and desultory form, as it is pursued by country boys and the incorrigible village idler.

From Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things by Van Dyke, Henry

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