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Definition: Unsporting |
UnsportingAdjective1. Violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: UnsportingSynonyms: cheating(a) (adj), dirty (adj), foul (adj), unsportsmanlike (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unsporting |
| English words defined with "unsporting": cheating ♦ dirty ♦ foul ♦ unsportsmanlike. (references) |
| "Unsporting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Unsporting" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unsporting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unsportlich (unathletic, unsportsmanlike), unfair (unequable, unfair, unfairly, unright, wrong). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tidak sportif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ortingunspay недостойный спортсмена. (various references) osportlig (unsportsmanlike), inte sportsmannamässig (unsportsmanlike). (various references) sportmence olmayan (unsportsmanlike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-n-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: gunpoints, posturing, sprouting, tonsuring. | |
-2 letters: grunions, gunpoint, ingroups, outgrins, outrings, rousting, snorting, snouting, sporting, spouting, spurning, spurting, tourings, trouping, turnings, unstring. | |
-3 letters: grunion, ingroup, inpours, introns, inturns, nitrous, nonsuit, nursing, ousting, outgrin, outings, outring, outsing, pignuts, pigouts, porting, posting, pouring, pouting, prosing, pruning, punting, pursing, rouping, rousing, routing, rusting, snoring, sorning, sorting, souping. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-n-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: outsprinting, unstoppering. | |
+3 letters: counterposing. | |
+4 letters: counterpoising. | |
+5 letters: counterstepping, superconducting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 73 70 6F 72 74 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ... .--. --- .-. - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110011 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n s p o r t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0073 0070 006F 0072 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55808582818486758073 |
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