sportsmanlike

How To Use sportsmanlike In A Sentence

• These are the same people whose extremely unsportsmanlike behavior can be seen in the following newsclip: George Heymont: More Funding For School Arts Programs, Less For Sports
• His sophomore year, he was unable to pitch due to unsportsmanlike conduct directed towards one of the umpires that had gotten him ejected for the rest of the state tournament.
• To the average western man, who has an aversion to what he considers unsportsmanlike conduct, merely the mention of the word sniper evokes an image of an evil little foreign man sneaking through the jungles of Okinawa picking off the good guys, or of a merciless Viet Cong hiding in a tree waiting for the opportunity to kill a 19-year-old GI from Des Moines or Wichita as he walks patrol at Nha Trang. ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
• West Indies won the inaugural Test 13 years ago, but had to rely on some unsportsmanlike tactics to avoid defeat five years ago.
• The German was branded a cheat and scratched from that year's drivers' championship for unsportsmanlike conduct.
• I've never seen a player justify unsportsmanlike actions by saying, ‘I'm going to do what I want to and say what I want to.’
• In both cases, the rules were changed because the actions of the quarterbacks were judged to be unsportsmanlike.
• The advice to ‘not look back until you've passed the finish line’ was selfish and unsportsmanlike.
• She watched as pupils competed in a pentathlon on the school field, before presenting awards to pupils judged to be either the best sportsperson, most improved sportsperson or most sportsmanlike pupil in their class.
• In a police interview, he accepted he had delivered the butt and said he knew his actions were unsportsmanlike.