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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unsportsmanlike

1754, from un- (1) "not" + sportsmanlike.

Wiktionary
unsportsmanlike

a. violating the accepted standards of sportsmanship

WordNet
unsportsmanlike

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, unsporting]

Usage examples of "unsportsmanlike".

Mallory had on one occasion climbed the Big Wall on Mount Cook, removing the spikes left there by an unsportsmanlike German expedition.

The war literature stored at Atacama, to which we have already referred, is full of futile protest against the horror, the unsportsmanlike quality, the casual filthiness and indecency, the mechanical disregard of human dignity of the new tactics.

Though Edmund would not stop for his nurse or his tutor he would do so if his uncle called to him, and since he seemed to have made good his escape from these persons it would be unsportsmanlike to check him when his goal was within sight.

Good Lord, Blair, our fathers deliberately tried to unseat each other, but that sort of racing has been considered unsportsmanlike for years now.

I have never dared to ask him, for my conscience would not let me countenance such an unsportsmanlike way of getting round the fish.

The unsportsmanlike trick was one that Ben Adams and his overgrown, gangling sons might engage in.