Adjective: unsportsmanly
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more unsportsmanly |
| Superlative | most unsportsmanly |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like unsportsmanly
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English un-
3. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
4. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
5. Proto-Italic *dis-
6. Latin dis-
7. Old French des-
8. Proto-Indo-European *per-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-téh₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂
11. Proto-Italic *portā
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
13. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
14. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
15. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
16. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
17. Proto-Italic *-ājō
18. Proto-Italic *-āō
19. Proto-Italic *portāō
20. Latin portāre
21. Old French porter
22. Anglo-Norman desporterbor.
23. Middle English disporten
24. Middle English sporten
25. English sport
26. English -s
27. English sports
28. Proto-Indo-European *mon-
29. Proto-Germanic *mann-
30. Proto-West Germanic *mann
31. Old English mann
32. Middle English man
33. Middle English -man
34. English -man
35. English sportsman
36. Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
37. Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
38. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
39. Proto-West Germanic *-līk
40. Old English -līċ
41. Middle English -ly
42. English -ly
43. English sportsmanly
44. English unsportsmanly
45. From un- + sportsmanly.