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Definition of Sportily
1. sporty [adv] - See also: sporty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sportily
Literary usage of Sportily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"Victoria, on the contrary, is a quietly prosperous, rather sportily inclined old
gentleman who is fond of good living and believes that no time is wasted ..."
2. Mississippi Valley Beginnings: An Outline of the Early History of the by Henry Edward Chambers (1922)
"The other popularized it with that very large element sportily inclined, whose
keenest pleasure is " to beat the other fellow" in any kind of a contest. ..."
3. Working with the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker (1922)
"One girl told of a man she could have vamped the Sunday before in the Subway,
but he was too sportily dressed and she got scared and quit in the middle. ..."
4. Journeys and Experiences in Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile, Including a Side by Henry Stephens (1920)
"A crowd was at the dock and it much resembled the crowds seen on the docks of
the Great Lakes ports, with the exception that among its members were sportily ..."
5. From Dance Hall to White Slavery: The World's Greatest Tragedy by John Dillon, H. W. Lytle (1912)
"Mr. Mueller was a large, stout man, sportily inclined, with a sort of counterfeit
geniality that invariably impressed on first acquaintance. ..."
6. The Professor on Shipboard: A Story of a Voyage of a College Professor with by Charles Albert McAllister (1902)
"On several occasions he was inveigled into playing an innocent game of euchre,
and one evening he was invited by several sportily inclined young men to take ..."
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