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  • adverb In an unsporting way; unfairly.

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  • adverb in an unsportsmanlike manner

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Examples

  • It's a Roman religion that lived alongside Christianity for a while until the Christians unsportingly but unsurprisingly decided they didn't really like sharing.

    Archive 2009-09-01 lili 2009

  • It's a Roman religion that lived alongside Christianity for a while until the Christians unsportingly but unsurprisingly decided they didn't really like sharing.

    Hadrian's Wall Day #1 lili 2009

  • This page unsportingly suggests that the mound is a 13th-century motte which had nothing to do with Pepin, but I'll take my romance where I can find it, thanks.

    Dental development nwhyte 2010

  • Florida: the excitement is mainly now in the governors race, since Charlie Crist unsportingly ducked out of the Republican primary for the senate seat

    Florida, Arizona primary election results - as it happened 2010

  • Remarkably, two North-South pairs were reluctant to sell out to anything by the opponents, preferring instead to play in no fewer than six spades (unsportingly doubled by East).

    A strange contract at the European Championships 2010

  • There were times when the Colonials did this tin soldier face-off, but also times when they unsportingly fire from hiding, ambushing the superior numbers of redbacks, even shooting them in the back.

    "Kill Him!" Steven Barnes 2008

  • Most of these missives were fanatical screeds no doubt written with a crayon firmly wedged between the toes the writer's arms being unsportingly straitjacketed...deunciations of Jimmy Carter, the U.N., flouridation of water, and the flying monkeys were a daily event.

    The Chimes at Midnight 2004

  • It had been the single officer who had been pursued by the dragoons and whose arrival in the valley had prompted the duel who had ended it so unsportingly.

    Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

  • Seeth would have gladly given Taumun a fight, but the manager had unsportingly called upon the assistance of a couple of ursine types just small enough to squeeze through the hallways-provided they advanced one at a time, in single file.

    Glory Lane Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987

  • However unsportingly, Oprah has locked up tight most of the people who get whatever it is about her that we don't.

    The New Yorker Lauren Collins 2010

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