sporting
/ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/ adjective B1- Pertaining to sports · He got a job in a sporting goods store.
- Exhibiting sportsmanship. · Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
- Fair, generous; game. · It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
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The shotgun is a strange weapon to use inside a house; but he had intended to use it outside, and there it has very obvious advantages, as it would be impossible to miss with it, and the sound of shots is so common in an English sporting neighbourhood that no particular notice would be taken.”
It would indeed be a triumphant ending to his excellent sporting record if he added me to his bag.
Yesterday there was an old sporting man.
That is our bird, Watson—a sporting bird, as you must admit."
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