What are some opposite words for sporting?

Antonyms for sporting
ˈspɔr tɪŋ, ˈspoʊr-sport·ing

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  1. clean, sporting, sporty, sportsmanlikeadjective

    exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play

    "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct"

    Antonyms:
    unadventurous, strict, unjust, unfair, nonindulgent

    Synonyms:
    flashy, uncontaminating, clean-living, blank, unobjectionable, fresh, card-playing, sporty, clear, neat, white, unclouded, betting, showy, clean, jazzy, light, fair, gaudy, dissipated, uninfected, sportsmanlike

  2. sportingadjective

    relating to or used in sports

    "sporting events"; "sporting equipment"

    Antonyms:
    unadventurous, unjust, nonindulgent, strict, unfair

    Synonyms:
    betting, sportsmanlike, clean, card-playing, sporty, dissipated

  3. sportingadjective

    involving risk or willingness to take a risk

    "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood"

    Antonyms:
    nonindulgent, strict, unjust, unadventurous, unfair

    Synonyms:
    betting, sportsmanlike, clean, card-playing, sporty, dissipated

  4. dissipated, betting, card-playing, sportingadjective

    preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance

    "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies"

    Antonyms:
    unfair, nonindulgent, strict, unjust, unadventurous

    Synonyms:
    profligate, libertine, card-playing, sporty, debauched, fast, dissolute, riotous, clean, sportsmanlike, dissipated, betting, degenerate, degraded

How to use sporting in a sentence?

  1. Shaun Bailey:

    We have the infrastructure and the experience, and if I am elected I will make sure London is ready to host the biggest sporting celebration again, if we are called on in an hour of need.

  2. Mike Friday:

    The big thing in America is, if you can't be an NFL player, an NBA play or a baseball player, (but) you can be an Olympian, then that's the next best thing, the Olympics captures the imagination of the sporting public in America. If rugby can position itself and we can do well as an Olympic sport, then all of a sudden it will hit the eyes of so many more Americans.

  3. Alido Di Diovanni:

    You can have 360 (degree) video streams all round the world, operators can send feeds, for instance, from sporting events, from museums, restaurants, and so forth, users could connect to those VR streams and as they connect to them they can engage users within that space, and they can engage users who maybe don't have to have off-the-shelf phones. So a user may have got a phone from an operator that supports standard based video calling. You'd see a user net VR space and you'd be able to click on them and actually initiate a video call with that user overlaid on a 360 stream.

  4. Heather Meyer:

    We love our kids and we want the best for them. And part of that includes sporting activities. And this is just another in a long line of anti-trans youth bills that is spreading across the country like wildfire.

  5. Belinda Stronach:

    The sport of horse racing is the last great sporting legacy platform to be modernized. If we expect our sport to grow for future generations, we must raise our standards.

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#3150sporting
#7139strict
#10658unfair
#23330unjust

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