unsportsmanlike

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not showing fairness or respect toward an opponent, especially in sport or competition

   The referee penalized the player for an unsportsmanlike taunt after the goal.

Common collocations

• unsportsmanlike behavior Adjective + noun

Formed from the negative prefix un- + sportsmanlike. Sportsmanlike combines sportsman with -like and has meant "consistent with the ideals of good sportsmanship" since the eighteenth century; the negative form reverses that judgment.

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