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adv. - In a manner that violates accepted standards or rules.

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • 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...
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