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

But his father's house was a long distance from the village, and so he did not often have playmates, and it is poor sport to play marbles or ball by one's self.

From Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Stockton, Frank Richard