professional

professional
   unsporting
   The behaviour of those paid for playing a sport and for whom winning is no longer a game:
    The feeling persists that he was being professional, which is often a euphemism for unsporting. (Daily Telegraph, 21 April 1997a soccer player had ignored the convention that the ball should be returned to the opposition if deliberately put out of play after an injury to a player)
   A professional foul is a cynical infringement of the rules to deny an advantage to an opponent.

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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