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  • adjective Not athletic; lacking in athleticism.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ athletic

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Examples

  • Luke Winn: Will Duke ever shake 'unathletic' label?

    SI.com 2009

  • Luke Winn: Will Duke ever shake 'unathletic' label?

    SI.com 2009

  • Luke Winn: Will Duke ever shake 'unathletic' label?

    SI.com 2009

  • Luke Winn: Will Duke ever shake 'unathletic' label?

    SI.com 2009

  • At least two sportswriters covering the Duke-Connecticut final in the NIT Season Tip-Off wrote columns about the game regarding the perception that Duke is "unathletic" and posited that one reason this opinion exists is the number of Caucasian players in the Blue Devils 'rotation.

    unknown title 2009

  • Luke Winn: Will Duke ever shake 'unathletic' label?

    SI.com 2009

  • Actually, it was my older daughter Lucy, the proudly unathletic and disinterested in tennis one, who had done so.

    Negotiating the Open Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • No doubt, soccer is a fine game for school children: low costs, lots of exercise, and a chance for unathletic kids to compete without being able to hurt their side too disastrously.

    Stromata Blog 2010

  • Nash is shooting from the baseline (a tougher shot) with a single (relatively unathletic) ball retriever, while Davis shoots from a considerably easier spot (the top fo the key) with half of Los Angeles shagging balls for him ...

    sweet shooting 2009

  • I was too many classes behind him to remember him in school, but I knew he was unathletic, the quintessential bookworm with his thick glasses and meek manner.

    Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

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