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
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
Moreover, he’s an ineffective and unsatisfying dissenter, often coming across as little more than a poor sport.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2016
The gesture prompted a torrent of commentary about Radwanska as rude, icy and a poor sport.
From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2013
It would be very poor sport to spoil both the comedy and the tragedy before the curtain goes up.
From The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension by Griffith, George Chetwynd