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
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
The gesture prompted a torrent of commentary about Radwanska as rude, icy and a poor sport.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2013
Leslie began to think that it was poor sport, since the catch consisted of less than a dozen medium-sized whiting and a couple of small bass.
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman