Unsportsmanlike

Definition: Unsportsmanlike

Unsportsmanlike

Adjective

1. Violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior".

Date "unsportsmanlike" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Synonyms: Unsportsmanlike

Synonyms: cheating(a) (adj), dirty (adj), foul (adj), unsporting (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unsportsmanlike

English words defined with "unsportsmanlike": cheating ♦ dirty ♦ foul ♦ unsporting, unsportingly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unsportsmanlike": Hunting of the Hare. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unsportsmanlike

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	That was irrational of you not to mention unsportsmanlike. (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Unsportsmanlike

Domain	Title
Books	Keelhauled: Unsportsmanlike Conduct and the America's Cup (reference) Unsportsmanlike conduct (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Unsportsmanlike

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Usage Frequency: Unsportsmanlike

"Unsportsmanlike" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsportsmanlike" is used about 5 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	5	157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unsportsmanlike

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
unsportsmanlike conduct	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unsportsmanlike

Language		Translations for "unsportsmanlike"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		josportiv, i pandershëm (base, conscienceless, dark, devious, dirty, dishonest, disreputable, ill gotten, knavish, mean, rascally, raw, roguish, unfaithful, unscrupulous). (various references)

Bulgarian		неспортсменски, некавалерски, нелоялен (disloyal, unfair, unfaithful). (various references)

Czech		nesportovní. (various references)

German		unsportlich (unathletic, unsporting). (various references)

Hungarian		sportszerûtlen. (various references)

Italian		poco sportivo. (various references)

Pig Latin		ortsmanlikeunspay

Romanian		nesportiv. (various references)

Russian		неспортивный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nesportski. (various references)

Swedish		osportlig (unsporting), inte sportsmannamässig (unsporting). (various references)

Turkish		sportmence olmayan (unsporting), centilmence olmayan (ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly). (various references)

Vietnamese		không xứng đáng với một nh� thể thao, không hợp với một nh� thể thao không đúng l� một người thẳng thắn, không đúng l� một người trung thực. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Unsportsmanlike"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unsportsmanlike" (pronounced unspô"rtsmunlī'k)
7	-s m u n l ī' k	statesmanlike.
4	-n l ī' k	fanlike, fernlike, hornlike, moonlike, workmanlike.
3	-l ī' k	apelike, beaklike, berrylike, businesslike, catlike, childlike, computerlike, doglike, dreamlike, eellike, eyelike, ghostlike, grasslike, homelike, knifelike, ladylike, leaflike, lifelike, lookalike, mosslike, needlelike, netlike, pincerlike, plantlike, platelike, saltlike, sharklike, snakelike, starlike, stemlike, swordlike, tomblike, toothlike, warlike, winglike, wormlike.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unsportsmanlike

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-k-l-m-n-n-o-p-r-s-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: sportsmanlike.
	-3 letters: mensurations, reassumption, supernations.
	-4 letters: antismokers, mensuration, neutralisms, numerations, outsparkles, personalism, personalist, resumptions, supernation, tourmalines, trampolines.
	-5 letters: antiserums, antismoker, assoilment, assumption, emulations, impersonal, implanters, importunes, impostures, innermosts, insulators, keratinous, mannerists, marlstones, melatonins, mestranols, mousetraps, neutralism, nonpareils, nonskaters, normalises, numeration, outsparkle, paltriness, patronises, peninsular, peninsulas, penultimas, persuasion, plesiosaur, pliantness, pneumonias, portliness, prelusions, prolamines, protamines.
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