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Unsporting

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





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"Unsporting" Quotes from Famous Books



... transferred to slides and examined through a microscope till an advanced hour of the night. The curious part of the matter was that his house was never riotous. Perhaps he was looked on as a non-combatant, one whom it would be unfair and unsporting to rag. At any rate, a weird calm reigned over the place; and this spirit seemed to permeate the public lives of the Shieldsites. They said nothing much and they did nothing much and they were very inoffensive. As a rule, one hardly knew they ...
— The Politeness of Princes - and Other School Stories • P. G. Wodehouse


Words linked to "Unsporting" :   cheating, unfair, unjust


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