Meaning
Someone who complains becomes upset, or otherwise reacts very negatively when they fail or lose at something competitive.
Examples
Don’t be such a sore loser, Jim. I know you pride yourself on your racquetball skills, but I beat you fair and square. You know how much of a sore loser he is, so why would you keep reminding him that he lost the match? Of course, he’s going to go off and pout.
We didn’t want to be sore losers, so we went and congratulated the other team after they won.
People don’t like sore losers.
He was criticised as being a sore loser.
If you don’t do it you come across as a sore loser.
Watching as “sore losers” attempt to destroy democracy in America. TRUMP LOST
Not only does he come across as somewhat bitter to call anyone else a sore loser, there’s something of a subtle concession from him that the 2016 referendum was based on lies, too.
Cruz punctuated his laudatory run for office this year with a Republican convention speech that made him look like a sore loser and then an endorsement of Donald Trump that made him look like an unprincipled sore loser.
Insisting she was not a sore loser, she wrote: “When will u stop bullying?
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — I’m not a sore loser. I just wanna tell the truth so the people will know.
NEW YORK — Floyd Mayweather said in an upcoming interview with Showtime that at this moment he’s not interested in a rematch with Manny Pacquiao “because he’s a sore loser and he’s a coward.”
“You’ll be called a sore loser. It won’t look good.
You will think Gaucci is either a sore loser or a jackass.
Your client has four to Five hours to observe you in various circumstances: Are you a sore loser? Do you cheat?
But I’m not a sore loser. The election is now done and dusted.
“They say I’m a sore loser, but they’re not going to see me anymore -I am through,” the 72 year -old Arum said afterwards.
He was a sore loser when Biden started winning the election