Sometimes they sportively began to pelt each other with apples, and on other occasions they amused themselves with adorning each other's hair, which they braided in various forms.
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Sportively
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Perhaps to treat the matter lightly and sportively would be the course most likely to encourage her to explain it.
Source: wiktionary
"Then you got time, ain't you, to buy a girl a glass o'--" She stopped and winked sportively.
Source: wiktionary
At Zanies last May she sportively bickered with the vocal crowd.
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