be a bad loser
be a poor loser

"I've always been a bad loser, but when you come to some programs, it takes time to turn things around.

Once again he has demonstrated that he is a bad loser.

He had told me he was a bad loser.

And frankly, I didn't want to be a bad loser."

I guess she was a bad loser.

It looks like maybe you are a bad loser if you complain, but I felt like we played against six men all night.

"Monsieur is a bad loser," was Delamort's cold answer, as he took the hint and his leave without further delay.

If she won the fight, but her clothing got torn and revealed her nature, she would be a worse loser than he.

"You mustn't be a bad loser, Alex. Henryk is very valuable to me.

He is a bad loser.'

Alex knew that Drevin was a bad loser, and he had dark feelings about this match which he couldn't shake off.

"I was very concerned about, and should be concerned about, giving the appearance of being a bad loser," Mr. McCain said.

"Mr. Savimbi is a bad loser and a dangerous one," The Financial Times of London wrote.

"It's just unpleasant to play, to enter into any competitive game, with someone who shaves a little here and there or who is a bad loser," one woman said.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr President of the Commission, I do not think I am a bad loser.

"I never wished Bowie harm," Mr. Miller says piously, as he ceaselessly lowers the boom on his hapless adversary: "Bowie was a bad loser."

Mr President, I wish to use this point of order to draw attention to this highly irregular procedure, which demonstrates merely what it is to be a bad loser following a vote.

Mr Todd made clear at the weekend that he thought Mr Field was a bad loser, saying he appeared to think he was God's gift to Birkenhead.

Will wins the girl and when he meets Claire, then aged 11, he instantly falls in love with her; however Featherstone is a bad loser and sends him running for his life into the wilderness.

Brian & Trish did not vote with the mafia on this occasion, their vote being to Alex & Paul because Alex admitted to being a bad loser during the painting task.

Ismena leads them to a local trading post to get them some weapons, but have to leave empty-handed when the weapons dealer challenges them to a bout of arm wrestling and proves to be a bad loser.

The other team is a bad loser, however, and on the final try, they play aggressively to ensure they do not win, knocking them with the putt, forcing them into corners, and so on, and they win the game.

What I do find a little disappointing is that in the supplement on novel food and on novel food legislation I have the impression that you, all of a sudden, as the representative of the Commission, might be a bad loser.

Afterwards he recalled that 'lilies can be so dreadfully boring when not planted in a bed'.17 Frewen was a bad loser, for when he realized that he could not compete with the Prince of Wales he went off and became a cowboy in Wyoming.