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unsporting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unsporting
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was a filthy trick, totally unsporting and certainly not cricket.
▪ There were rival theatrical cliques, and rifts and vendettas among the games people over alleged unsporting behaviour.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unsporting

1822, from un- (1) "not" + sporting (adj.).

Wiktionary
unsporting

a. unfair, or not sportsmanlike

WordNet
unsporting

adj. violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" [syn: cheating(a), dirty, foul, unsportsmanlike]

Usage examples of "unsporting".

In case the enemy were so unsporting as to lie in foxholes, however, they showed him how to use a hand grenade, and how to creep up covered by bis pals with the Bren gun to lob these in among the Germans in the trench.

They'd not only given me the freedom of the city but had shown concern that I'd be unsporting enough to tread on his face just for a giggle.

The reduction of a philosophical system to the biographical vicissitudes of its creator is considered (I know something of this) an occupation as petty as it is unsporting.