Usually means: In a playful or jesting manner.
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  1. sportively: Merriam-Webster
  2. sportively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sportively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sportively: Vocabulary.com
  5. sportively: Wordnik
  6. sportively: Wiktionary
  7. sportively: Dictionary.com
  8. sportively: Rhymezone
  9. sportively: FreeDictionary.org
  10. sportively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. sportively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sportively: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a sportive way

Similar:
sportily, sportingly, athletically, sportfully, playfully, competitively, unsportingly, playsomely, gamely, meanspiritedly, more...

Opposite:
unsportingly, unathletically, clumsily, awkwardly

Types:
running, swimming, cycling, skiing, skating, snowboarding, surfing, kayaking, windsurfing, more...

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Similar:
sportily, sportingly, athletically, sportfully, playfully, competitively, unsportingly, playsomely, gamely, meanspiritedly, more...

Opposite:
unsportingly, unathletically, clumsily, awkwardly

Types:
running, swimming, cycling, skiing, skating, snowboarding, surfing, kayaking, windsurfing, more...



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