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
As to the learned counsel, their hunt is in the court: and undoubtedly, by making so few doubles, I have afforded them but poor sport.
From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. by De Quincey, Thomas
