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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sporty
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ Still, if a well-equipped sporty car is in your heart, the fifth-generation Prelude probably is a good bet.
▪ Yeah, one of those sporty cars that looks like a sports car and drives like a sedan.
▪ Honda says it tried to make its two-door sporty car more practical.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ That's a sporty little car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A Feeling 850 Club gives sporty sailing in a sensitive boat for up to 6; she's very fast in light winds.
▪ After a few days we swapped the wagon for the much sportier 5 version of the S70 sedan.
▪ And the sporty model, with its bigger tires, felt better in highway twists and turns than its richer sibling.
▪ And the sporty victim herself was all smiles, too.
▪ I packed my AK-47 lapel pin, my polyester-blend suit and some white shoes for sporty occasions.
▪ The intent of such monsters today is not simply to be bigger, sportier and more utilitarian than sport utilities.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sporty

1889, "sportsmanlike;" 1962, "in the style of a sports car," from sport (n.) + -y (2). Related: Sportily; sportiness.

Wiktionary
sporty

a. 1 Favourable to sports 2 Flashy in appearance.

WordNet
sporty
  1. adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display [syn: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy]

  2. [also: sportiest, sportier]

Wikipedia
Sporty

Sporty may refer to:

  • Sportsmanship
  • Casual clothing suitable for sport, or clothing sportingly fashionable or stylish
  • Sporty, stage name of Øystein Andersen, drummer in the Norwegian rock band Wig Wam
  • Melanie C, "Sporty Spice" of the Spice Girls music group
  • Sporty Thievz, an American hip-hop group

Usage examples of "sporty".

M cooked up a very fine rib, but not quite equal to the artistry of Sporty Porkers.

As he ducked back around the easel and returned to his work, Marie walked toward two white-trousered legs that showed beneath what he was doing, sporty trousers wrapped from the knee in gray cloth spatterdashes that buttoned down over black shoes.

It was frequented by Broadwayites of shabby reputation, a sprinkling of cheap prizefighters, and quite a few of the more sporty figures in the underworld.

A sporty little fastback Ford Mustang, maroon in color, was parked in front of my ground-floor room, a tall, slim girl in jeans was knocking at the door.

It amazed her to think of how she had once driven one-handed through the city behind the wheel of a smaller, sportier BMW, heedless of her heedlessness.

Most of the owners came down from the Clubhouse to watch the saddling of the runners in the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes, and all the sportier of them wore the rosettes.

If only he had taken it to the labs instead of the sportier design he had been so eager to try out.

There were others, a trifle on the sportier side, who were obviously private detectives, assisting Regan, who was all about the place.

Clubhouse to watch the saddling of the runners in the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes, and all the sportier of them wore the rosettes.

Volkswagen was so successful that it began to think it could be like General Motors and sell bigger, faster, and sportier cars.

She had rented the sportiest thing she could find, which was, in this case, a red Mustang convertible with a white roof, which looked a little forlorn as it pulled up through the dark winter night.

As Patrick might have said, Olivia was as svelte as the sportiest coupe in the dealership, but never mind.

Later on he broke loose, however, and when he did he became one of the sportiest of sports, blowing his money as if he had found it and setting a hot pace for his followers.

Patrick might have said, Olivia was as svelte as the sportiest coupe in the dealership, but never mind.

She stole its mantle, a men's XL down ski jacket with felt pen stains around its hem, and small castanet of sporty ski lift tags chattering on its zipper.