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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

... to meet Yale in the annual football game between the freshman teams. The streets were filled with pretty girls, and more pretty girls, with "sporty" chaps in mackinaws, in raglans—with all sorts of hats atop of their heads, and some without hats ...

— Andy at Yale - The Great Quadrangle Mystery • Roy Eliot Stokes

... to th' grapes just now, Geoff. I don't mean those giddy-lookin' pumps with flossy bows onto 'em, but somethin' sporty, good an' yellow that'll flash an' let folks know you're comin'. ...

— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol

... he thought it was that way; and it was that way. But everyone in the parquet thought that the kiss had been intended for him. Folk of quality were annoyed at the insolence of the peasant wench; while more "sporty" persons returned ...

— Walter Pieterse - A Story of Holland • Multatuli

... asked about our old-time friends, those cheery, sporty men; And some was in the poor-house, Tom, and some was in the pen. You know the one you liked the best?—the hang-man laid him low,— Oh, few are left that used to booze some twenty ...

— Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp • Various

... a good-looking young chap. Dresses kind of sporty. He's a great jollier. You have to know him a while to find out that he means business. Well, he came 'round and saw I was feeling pretty tired, so he asked me to knock off for a week and go fishing with him. I did, and it was the ...

— Calumet 'K' • Samuel Merwin

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