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
Honest burgesses, less expert in the use of lethal weapons, and either less courageous or less callous in taking human life, appear to have shown extremely poor "sport" in their involuntary matches.
From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)
