sportively

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adverb

In a sportive way

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Meanings

adverbsportively (comparative more sportively, superlative most sportively)

comparative more sportively · superlative most sportively

  1. In a sportive way

    At Zanies last May she sportively bickered with the vocal crowd.

    2006 October 13, Ryan Hubbard, “Chelsea Handler”, in Chicago Reader
    2 more examples

    Perhaps to treat the matter lightly and sportively would be the course most likely to encourage her to explain it.

    1880, Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac

    "Then you got time, ain't you, to buy a girl a glass o'--" She stopped and winked sportively.

    1912, James Brendan Connolly, Wide Courses

Origin

From sportive + -ly.

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APA

sportively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sportively

MLA

“sportively.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sportively. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sportively,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sportively.

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