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sportfully

sportfully adverb: playfully.

Adverb

sportfully (comparative more sportfully, superlative most sportfully)

  1. (archaic) playfully
    • All took the word, to the gay band they hied, The queen, besure, was close to Lanval's side, Sprightly she seem'd, and sportfully did toy, And caught his hand to dance, and led the general joy, Lanval alone was dull where all was gay, His thoughts were fixed on his lovely fay: Soon as he deftly...1816, Matilda Betham, The Lay of Marie
    • My stature gives no inch I throw away; My supple joints play free and sportfully; I'm every atom what a man should be.1887, James Sheridan Knowles, The Love-Chase

Forms of sportfully

comparativemore sportfully
superlativemost sportfully

Origin of sportfully

From sportful + -ly.

Questions about sportfully

What does sportfully mean?
Sportfully means playfully.
What part of speech is sportfully?
Sportfully is an adverb.

Words near sportfully in the dictionary

  1. sportfishery
  2. sportfishes
  3. sportfishing
  4. sportful
  5. sportfull
  6. sportfully
  7. sportfulness
  8. Sportianity
  9. sportier
  10. sportiest
  11. sportif

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