gamesmanship
the use of methods, especially in a sports contest, that are dubious or seemingly improper but not strictly illegal.
the technique or practice of manipulating people or events so as to gain an advantage or outwit one's opponents or competitors.
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How to use gamesmanship in a sentence
As Bannon acknowledges, this proposal could still be vulnerable to gamesmanship.
Election Profit Makers allows a touch of that gamesmanship back in — and it’s a welcome break from the grief and exhaustion many people are experiencing after an election cycle that feels like it’s lasted 1,500 days.
The Election Podcast Trying to Get Everyone to Stop Listening | Fiona Zublin | October 29, 2020 | OzyHe was sent off after the incident, but Ghana went on to lose, in large part due to his gamesmanship.
Luis Suarez, Uruguay’s Notorious Soccer Vampire, Strikes Again—Biting Italian in World Cup Win | Tunku Varadarajan | June 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was campaign spin and gamesmanship and seemed to be understood by everyone as such.
All of this is just gamesmanship, but it matters for the purposes of the next debate.
It was another element in the gamesmanship between the sexes.
Helen Gurley Brown’s Fashion Sense: the Power of Cleavage | Robin Givhan | August 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTI think we are involved more in political gamesmanship than in getting them the information they say they want.
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British Dictionary definitions for gamesmanship
/ (ˈɡeɪmzmənˌʃɪp) /
informal the art of winning games or defeating opponents by clever or cunning practices without actually cheating
Derived forms of gamesmanship
- gamesman, noun
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