poor sport
Example Sentences
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I know he was hurt, but what a poor sport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2022
“It wasn’t like he was a poor sport, whining or anything.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2021
Spitting in a cup at Doral in 2007, or being a poor sport after losing an Open playoff to Padraig Harrington later that summer?
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 6, 2019
Let her have her anger and stay distant but polite; the obvious irrationality of her complaint against you will not persuade any reasonable people that you are a bad parent or a poor sport.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2017
Yet though we were rewarded with such poor sport, our stay among the splendid woods of the Keira range sufficiently repaid us.
