antiathletic
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antiathletic (comparative more antiathletic, superlative most antiathletic)
- Disliking or opposing athletics.
- 2009, Michael Oriard, Bowled Over: Big-time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era:
- While a new breed of self-indulgent athletes resisted discipline and sacrifice, antiathletic faculty were jealous of the coach's popularity and salary.
 
 
 - Unathletic; lacking sporting physique or ability.
- 2000, Beth Cohen, Not the Classical Ideal:
- Tragedy developed affinities with civic ideals of restraint, manly control, and heroic discipline, but comedy, and in particular the comic body, developed affinities with anticivic excess, sexual abandon, and unmilitary, antiathletic slackness.
 
 
 - unsporting, unsportsmanlike
 
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