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Definition of Sportingly
1. Adverb. So as to be sporting; in a sporting manner.
Definition of Sportingly
1. adv. In sport; sportively.
Definition of Sportingly
1. Adverb. In a sporting manner, demonstrating good sportsmanship. ¹
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Definition of Sportingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sportingly
Literary usage of Sportingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lord Bacon Not the Author of "The Christian Paradoxes": Being a Reprint of by Herbert Palmer, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1865)
"Using them sportingly. 8. Repeating other's oaths. 1. Untruths. 2. Truths spoken
maliciously, sportingly, unnecessarily, concerning others faults or ..."
2. Lord Bacon Not the Author of "The Christian Paradoxes": Being a Reprint of by Herbert Palmer, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1864)
"3 6. Making jests of Scripture phrases. 7. Using them sportingly. 8. ...
Truths spoken maliciously, sportingly, unnecessarily, concerning others faults or ..."
3. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (1853)
"... looking downwards, contains the bones of St. Maxima, who came from Ravenna on
purpose .to touch the body quoth my father, rather sportingly. ..."
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