divertive
Americanadjective
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The whole Work being intermix'd with variety of useful and divertive Relations, never before published.
From The Female Wits by Anonymous
It was clear that for them such an arrival was more divertive than the sharing of a sorrow that scarcely touched their hearts.
From The Guarded Heights by Wadsworth Camp
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