unsporting

[ UK /ʌnspˈɔːtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. violating accepted standards or rules
    a dirty fighter
    fined for unsportsmanlike behavior
    used foul means to gain power
    a nasty unsporting serve
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How To Use unsporting In A Sentence

  • Donie Brennan did have a chance to equalise but his effort from an acute free went wide off the far post, as the game became niggly and unsporting.
  • And every time the tournaments comes around, we get re-introduced to the horrible unsporting injustice of the penalty shoot-out.
  • It appears that Croke Park wants to stamp out this unsporting behaviour that has long been part of the professional soccer game.
  • Lots of farcical situations arise, which it would be unsporting to divulge.
  • The type of unsporting behaviour he showed was ridiculous really but thankfully Beckham rose above it.
  • Referees - I am led to believe - are appointed to oversee fair play, punish offenders and prevent unsporting conduct.
  • He never gave less than one hundred per cent, and while he had the physical capacity to take very good care of himself whatever the situation, I never knew him to engage in untoward or unsporting tactics.
  • The Blues have until 5pm today to submit their response to a charge of gross unsporting conduct for the midfielder's brutal challenge on Liverpool's Dietmar Hamann last week.
  • Victory through unsporting competition, he presumed, was preferable to no victory at all.
  • In one of the biggest sporting events in the world and with the eyes of the globe upon him, a clever man would have realised that any unsporting acts are going to be spotted, discussed and punished.
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