antiathletic

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adjective

Disliking or opposing athletics.

Scrabble 17

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adjectiveantiathletic (comparative more antiathletic, superlative most antiathletic)

comparative more antiathletic · superlative most antiathletic

  1. Disliking or opposing athletics.

    While a new breed of self-indulgent athletes resisted discipline and sacrifice, antiathletic faculty were jealous of the coach's popularity and salary.

    2009, Michael Oriard, Bowled Over: Big-time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era
  2. Unathletic; lacking sporting physique or ability.

    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.

    2000, Beth Cohen, Not the Classical Ideal

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