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sporting Adjective 1. of sport 2. behaving in a fair and decent way 3. a sporting chance reasonable likelihood of happening: a sporting chance of winning
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sporting Translations sporting [ˈspɔːtɪŋ] adj → sportivo/a; to give sb a sporting chance → dare a qn una possibilità (di vincere) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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277 D: The poet of the "War of the Titans", whether Eumelus of Corinth or Arctinus, writes thus in his second book: `Upon the shield were dumb fish afloat, with golden faces, swimming and sporting through the heavenly water. The brown walls were hung with a choice selection of sporting prints, varied here and there with silverpoint etchings of beautiful women in various poses. Finally, when the cabman, all top-heavy and bristling, had staggered off up the garden path, there emerged in a very leisurely way from the cab a big, powerfully built young man, with a bull pup under one arm and a pink sporting paper in his hand. |
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