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Unsportsmanlike   /ənspˈɔrtsmənlˌaɪk/   Listen
Unsportsmanlike

adjective
1.
Violating accepted standards or rules.  Synonyms: cheating, dirty, foul, unsporting.  "Used foul means to gain power" , "A nasty unsporting serve" , "Fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"






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"Unsportsmanlike" Quotes from Famous Books



... character well known to him, impudently and falsely claiming that he had done it first. Mr. Peary expressed himself, quite restrainedly and correctly, in regard to the effrontery and falsity of this claim—and all the country rose up and denounced him as "unsportsmanlike!" ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... unduly against diplomacy as a profession. In his eyes the acts of this man were unsportsmanlike; and to Allen Sanford, who looked upon a "good sport" as the noblest work of God, this charge was the most serious in the category of crime. But his expostulations and protests to his father were of no avail. Stephen ...
— The Lever - A Novel • William Dana Orcutt

... heap of driftwood on the bank, she gloomily contemplated the consequences of her greed. There were two ways to go about it now,—to break the line and leave the hook to its fate, or to crawl out on the log and rescue it. The first was unsportsmanlike, the second was very ...
— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham



Words linked to "Unsportsmanlike" :   foul, unfair, unjust



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