gamesmanship

games·man·ship

noun \ˈgāmz-mən-ˌship\

Definition of GAMESMANSHIP

1

: the art or practice of winning games by questionable expedients without actually violating the rules

2

: the use of ethically dubious methods to gain an objective

Examples of GAMESMANSHIP

1. They blur the line between gamesmanship and cheating.
2. <that author doesn't go in for literary gamesmanship, so the reader is never led astray by the novel's narrator>

First Known Use of GAMESMANSHIP

1947

Related to GAMESMANSHIP

Synonyms: artifice, chicane, chicanery, trickery, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, wile

Related Words: artfulness, caginess (also cageyness), craftiness, cunning, deviousness, foxiness, oiliness, shadiness, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, treachery, underhandedness, wiliness; crookedness, crookery, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, guile, guilefulness, hypocrisy, insincerity; fakery, humbuggery, imposture, quackery; dirty pool, dirty tricks; design, plotting, scheming, secrecy, stealth

Near Antonyms: artlessness, forthrightness, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity; candidness, candor, directness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness

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Rhymes with GAMESMANSHIP

airmanship, athwartship, authorship, battleship, biochip, brinkmanship, censorship, chairmanship, chieftainship, churchmanship, comic strip, consulship, coverslip, crack the whip, dealership, draftsmanship, ego trip, ego-trip, externship, fellowship, filter tip, fingertip, grantsmanship, helmsmanship, horsemanship, internship, ladyship, landing strip, leadership, lectureship, listenership, marksmanship, membership, mentorship, microchip, mother ship, motor ship, oarsmanship, overslip, ownership, paper clip, partnership, penmanship, pistol grip, pistol-whip, pogonip, power strip, praetorship, premiership, readership, ridership, rocket ship, rulership, rumble strip, salesmanship, scholarship, seamanship, showmanship, skinny-dip, speakership, sponsorship, sportsmanship, statesmanship, stewardship, studentship, swordsmanship, trusteeship, underlip, upmanship, viewership, weather ship, weather strip, workmanship