sportively

Example Sentences

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"What is missing to criminalize these people? And punish the clubs sportively? Why don't the sponsors charge La Liga? Don't the televisions bother to broadcast this barbarity every weekend?" he said.

From BBC • May 22, 2023

Even the costumes, by Hahnji Jang, are sportively eclectic, with clashing patterns and colors — along with additional anachronistic details, like hoop earrings and sneakers.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2021

Other men might have played sportively in the languid Florida sunshine, but not Mr. Hoover.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two omnibuses were checked as they lumbered across Oxford Circus, were sportively rolled backward several yards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sportively, the Arch-Community-Songster caught hold of it, sportively he pulled, pulled.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley