sportive
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Yet to listen to the brisk and sportive “Foreign Tongues” is to hear a band clearly going on instinct rather than overthinking the music à la any number of veteran acts in legacy-maintenance mode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
For once there was a justification for Mr. Koolhaas’s sportive diagonals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
She was strumming her guitar and in the middle of a sportive preamble to the first surprise song of the show.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2023
Having already brought “Birdhouse,” “Boomtown” and “Pedal Punk,” the troupe arrives with a sportive new show, “42FT: A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2019
It was the only logical explanation; she must have misunderstood the true meaning of the conversation, for she was not used to grown men jesting with one another in such a free and sportive way.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing sportive
Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 2
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"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth
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The Comedy of Errors
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