Gamesmanship

Synonyms for "gamesmanship" (53 found)

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Closest matches (11)

acuteness art artfulness artifice astuteness cageyness callidity canniness cleverness competition craft

Strong matches (16)

craftiness cunning cunningness cutthroat competition emulation fine italian hand finesse foxiness guile ingeniousness insidiousness inventiveness italian hand jockeying lifemanship one upmanship

Related words (26)

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7 relation types

More general

2 entries

inequity unfairness

Related terms

4 entries

brinksmanship game gamesman one-upmanship

causes desire

1 entries

play hockey

derived

1 entries

namesmanship

derived from

1 entries

manship

is a

1 entries

unfairness

related to

11 entries

advantage brinksmanship game gamesman legal manship one upmanship opponent ship tactic unsporting

Sample sentences

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They kept the other team waiting on the field until the last possible moment – that was a clear case of gamesmanship.

Source: wiktionary

[Tina] Satter’s film, with its dramatization of the investigators’ formalized gamesmanship and [Reality] Winner’s strategic maneuvering, is fascinating but narrow, both regarding the protagonist and the law at large.

Source: wiktionary

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