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
If they go on breeding gentle Red Polls—the Red Polls are really quiet of disposition, perhaps because inherited instinct tells them it is poor sport to fight without horns—it is because the process pays.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)
