If we design either to please or vex them into better manners, we must be as sportful in a manner, or as contemptuous as themselves.
How with a sportful malice it was follow'd May rather pluck on laughter than revenge, If that the injuries be justly weigh'd That have on both sides pass'd.
With the fable of the frogs and the boys in mind, I had to decline participation in his sportful moods, for what would have proved pure frolic to him might have been fraught with disaster to me.
Some of the young men were throwing sportful boomerangs and spears; large parties were so absorbed in the pleasure of corroboreeing that no notice was taken of the new-comer.
Detached and erratic patches of ripples appear--tiptoe touches of sportful elves tripping from the isles to the continent, whisking merrily, the faintest flicks of dainty toes making the glad sea to smile.
That an insect which occasions so much exasperation and pain should receive small mercy at the hands of a vexed and sportful boy is not extraordinary, and so he provides himself with entertainment and takes vengeance simultaneously.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sportful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: frolicsome; gamesome; playful; sportive; waggish
