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Sportingly

Sportingly \Sport"ing*ly\, adv. In sport; sportively.

The question you there put, you do it, I suppose, but sportingly.
--Hammond.

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sportingly

adv. In a sporting manner, demonstrating good sportsmanship.

WordNet
sportingly

adv. so as to be sporting; in a sporting manner [ant: unsportingly]

Usage examples of "sportingly".

My spoken English is blank, scrubbed clean and unbranded, except for an occasional beauty spot: a deliberate sub-Saharan lilt, which I refer to sportingly as my drop of milk in the coffee.