Definition of "sportively"

Perhaps to treat the matter lightly and sportively would be the course most likely to encourage her to explain it.

1880, Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac‎

"Then you got time, ain't you, to buy a girl a glass o'--" She stopped and winked sportively.

1912, James Brendan Connolly, Wide Courses‎

At Zanies last May she sportively bickered with the vocal crowd.

2006 October 13, Ryan Hubbard, “Chelsea Handler”, in Chicago Reader‎