But mostly the definitions show a sturdy common sense, except when Johnson used long words sportively.
"Recently in this department I mentioned a group of Larchmont yachtsmen who, as a prank, turned on the engine of the sloop they were sailing… "It would have been unforgettable if Manny could have won by fair means after the elaborately foul ones he sportively resoted to last fall, when….
"It would have been unforgettable if Manny could have won by fair means after the elaborately foul ones he sportively resoted to last fall, when he kept Night Wind ahead of Vim almost the whole way around an 18-mile course.
Sportively arbitrary hanging of great art should happen more often.
Permanently sloshed and sportively promiscuous, he was also deeply unhappy.
The New Yorker, June 8 , 1940P. 71 "It would have been unforgettable if Manny could have won by fair means after the elaborately foul ones he sportively resoted to last fall, when he kept Night Wind ahead of Vim almost the whole way around an 18-mile course.
By Glen Perry The New Yorker, June 8, 1940 P. 71 "It would have been unforgettable if Manny could have won by fair means after the elaborately foul ones he sportively resoted to last fall, when he kept Night Wind ahead of Vim almost the whole way around an 18-mile course.
The "Beloved Renegade" poet is bisexual, coupling sportively with one woman in a fleeting early incident, but more pointedly planting a kiss on a man's face later.
