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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

... it to you straight! There's too many sporty crowds loafing around those joints for a fellow like you to stand up under. I found you in one, and as yellow-fingered and as loafing as they come, a new ...

— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst

... returned Johnny. "That section has to have a hotel. The sporty merchants of the Middle West ...

— Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress • George Randolph Chester

... this very bench. He was so busy talking with a man that he never noticed me. That man was a stranger in Chester, at least I had never seen him before. Yes, and somehow it struck me there was a bit of a sporty ...

— Jack Winters' Baseball Team - Or, The Rivals of the Diamond • Mark Overton

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