They kept the other team waiting on the field until the last possible moment – that was a clear case of gamesmanship.
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Gamesmanship
Synonyms for "gamesmanship" (65 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (20)
cunningnesscutthroat competitionemulationfine italian handfinessefoxinessguileingeniousnessinsidiousnessinventivenessitalian handjockeyinglifemanshipone upmanship
Noun(6 words)
debate tacticdirty trickethical concernfairness critiquemoral critiquenormative objection
Related words (32)
Noun(7 words)
organizational maneuveroutplayingprocedural maneuverpsychological edgerhetorical ploystrategic manipulationtactical deception
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More general
6 entriesMore specific
9 entriesethics violationpolicy influence attemptprocedural maneuverpsychological pressurereferee manipulationrhetorical ployrule breachstall tacticsverbal feints
Collocations
6 entriesathletic gamesmanshipcollegiate gamesmanshipcompetitive gamesmanshippolitical gamesmanshippsychological gamesmanshipstrategic gamesmanship
Inflections
1 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
[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.
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