Adjective : a sportive puppy. ,a sportive show of affection.    From Dictionary.com. 

You have many a time sportively purloined it: it fitted your fore-finger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

The slope that I so laboriously clamber up the wind skips sportively down.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Changed Man] Reference

"No, I thank you," replied I, sportively, -- meaning, of course, that they should understand I was a good Aristocrat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

“We rode and tied,” said Garrick sportively in after years of prosperity, when he spoke of their humble wayfaring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference

In his incarnation of Krishna, Vishnu sported with the children of the cowherds of Vrinda and sportively lowed as a cow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

The muddy green sea played with their boat, tossing it noisily on the waves that sportively flung bright salt drops into it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories] Reference

All these quick and lively sallies were said sportively, quite in jest, and with a smile, which showed that he meant only wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference

Catching at the tiny bisque cupid that hung from the chandelier, Emily sportively sent it flying toward Kate, who swung it back again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference

The boat danced on the waves that sportively splashed over its edge; it scarcely moved forward on the dark sea; which frolicked more and more gayly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories] Reference

Boys gather the flower when ripe, and blow away the hall of its silky seed vessels at the crown, to learn the time of day, thus sportively making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

I learned without fear or suffering, by mere observation, amid the caresses of my nursery and jests of friends, smiling and sportively encouraging me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions] Reference

When ducks sportively chase each other through the water, and flap their wings and dive about, in evident enjoyment of their pastime, it is a sign that rain is not far off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference

His auditor bowed her head sportively but modestly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference

He endeavoured to speak sportively as they went on.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference

A little wind blew sportively around Miss Stiles 'large hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cathedral] Reference

They were dancing sportively farther and farther from the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aladdin O'Brien] Reference

I began sportively, but when I saw you getting excited and angry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference

She spoke sportively, benignantly, without knowing the deep truth of her words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference

There was a fine gentle wind, and Mr. Pickwick's hat rolled sportively before it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pickwick Papers] Reference

And in the dance each seemed to be sportively creative, ruled by his own sweet will.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Blood] Reference

He looked the idle, sportively inclined son of some rich man in the Fifth Avenue district.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference

"I observe that you have labored to protect your own indorsement," sportively remarked the Major.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story] Reference

And then, half sportively, half in earnest, she taxed him with that matter which was next her heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linda Tressel] Reference

Mr. Vosburgh accompanied him to the drawing-room, and Marian sportively introduced him to Major Strahan.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Original Belle] Reference

He was playing in the street, and the driver of a passing vehicle cut at him, sportively, with his whip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Urban Sketches] Reference

"I shan't let you in," cried Mabel sportively, "till you tell me exactly what you've been doing for this age.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mermaid A Love Tale] Reference

They talked of old times, sometimes sadly, sometimes sportively, glancing swiftly from one old memory to another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vixen, Volume III.] Reference

He stood at his galley door, with his cloth cap cocked sportively over one eye, and gave the facts to the inquisitive sailors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference

President Lincoln's favorite son, Tad, having been sportively commissioned a lieutenant in the United States Army by Secretary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller] Reference

A little urchin would hang to his pony's long tail, while the latter, with only his head above water, glided sportively along.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Child Life] Reference

Here I laved and wantoned with the water, or sportively played with my companion, leaving Emily to deal with hers at discretion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)] Reference

He planted little stitches in the small of the back, sought out old aches and weak joints, and sportively punched the tenants of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Urban Sketches] Reference

Mr. Moulder sportively was accustomed to name it among his friends, he opined that he was not altogether behind the mark in that respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orley Farm] Reference