| ADJECTIVE | all | sporting, clean, sporty, sportsmanlike | exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play |
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| pert | sporting | relating to or used in sports | |
| all | sporting | involving risk or willingness to take a risk | |
| all | sporting, dissipated, betting, card-playing | preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance |
| Sounds | spao'rtihng | |
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| Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... | |
| Meaning | Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play. | |
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| Example | "a sporting solution of the disagreement" | |
| Synonyms | clean, sporty, sportsmanlike | |
| Broader | fair, just | Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception |
| Spanish | limpio | |
| Adverbs | sportingly | so as to be sporting |
| Meaning | relating to or used in sports. | |
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| Spanish | deportivo, limpio | |
| Nouns | sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition |
| Meaning | Involving risk or willingness to take a risk. | |
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| Broader | adventurous, adventuresome | willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises |
| Spanish | arriesgado | |
| Catalan | arriscat | |
| Meaning | preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance. | |
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| Example | "sporting gents and their ladies" | |
| Synonyms | dissipated, betting, card-playing | |
| Broader | indulgent | Characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone |
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