Word: brattish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thankfully, the blue-blood code dominating tennis is slowly fading. "Rude" players are still contemptuously labelled brattish, but there are many more brats than before--as well there should be, if being a brat means pointing out when the officials are fouling up great and exciting matches with incompetence. It is even all right, it seems to me, to get mad at an opponent; in other sports, this is called "psyching up" and encouraged, but in tennis it is called ungentlemanly. Those Americans who realize that a backboard is but three feet wide will never love the sport as long...