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Sporty

adjective

Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play. Synonyms: clean, sporting, sportsmanlike. "A sporting solution of the disagreement" , "Sportsmanlike conduct"

(used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display. Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy.

Appropriate for sport or engagement in a sport.

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"Sporty" Quotes from Famous Books

... herself up proudly. "No, indeed! If I go at all, I will do the thing properly, and go to a real school, and not a hot-house. I don't want their old beef-tea and bottles. I want to go to a nice, big, sporty school, where they treat you like boys, and not young ladies, and put you on your honour, and don't bind you down by a hundred sickening little rules. I want to go to,"—she drew a long breath, and glanced at her mother, as ...

— Tom and Some Other Girls - A Public School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... baby. But he braced quick and stepped up to the lads. "There ain't nothing I can say except thank you," says he. "I want to get each man's name so's I can pay him back. Now, if anybody here knows of a job of work I can get—well, you know what it would mean to me. Sporty life is done for me, friends; I'll work hard for any man ...

— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips

... been good enough for you for fifty years," I retorted. "And if you think you look sporty, or anything but idiotic, sitting there in a flowered kimono and swabbing out the ...

— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart

Words linked to "Sporty" : colourful, just, active, colorful, fair