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Recent Examples of gamesman
Also featured: a scene in which Parsons, a gamesman who actually brought his own Connect Four board to Southern California training camp, faces backup quarterback Ben DiNucci in a chess match.
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Jori Epstein,
USA TODAY,
18 Aug. 2021
Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.
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Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
17 Dec. 2019
The weapon-wielding gamesman responded by repeatedly punching Grayson, the younger man said.
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Shane Dixon Kavanaugh,
OregonLive.com,
20 Mar. 2018
Jori Epstein,
USA TODAY,
18 Aug. 2021
Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.
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Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
17 Dec. 2019
The weapon-wielding gamesman responded by repeatedly punching Grayson, the younger man said.
—
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh,
OregonLive.com,
20 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gamesman
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Many a knave is rich, sleek, and honored, while the just man is poor, hated, and in torment.
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How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?
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Not even the curmudgeonly Melvin can bring himself to harm the little rascal.
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My mother was a total gem but also a bit of a rascal.
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Good afternoon and welcome to Con Con, the convention for swindlers, mountebanks, and the people who love them.
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Godard might have come across as a species of poseur – a pretentious, quote-spouting mountebank – but his way of seeing was genuinely new.
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To tell the truly venomous from the fakers, there are a couple details to help distinguish the two.
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Others estimate that $500 billion in federal spending is diverted by charlatans each year.
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To this day, a portion of the left-wing Democratic elite views Obama as a charlatan who hoodwinked their voters into supporting him.
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But when a patient recognizes him from his dangerous past, Brown has eight hours to elude the government, mob hitmen, quack surgeons, and a trail of dead gangers to beat the reaper somehow.
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But let’s circle back to TV‘s patron saint of affable, oft–insidious quacks.
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Is the team a contender, a pretender or rebuilding?
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Now, hardship seems to be an end in itself, a battle scar or badge of honor that distinguishes true backpackers from mere pretenders.
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Moreover, the official mascots succeed in spotting various varmints — foxes and possums, to be specific, but thankfully, no vultures.
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The aliens’ ability to take on the forms of stags, foxes and cardinals is also in line with what experiencers have reported about their visitations.
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“Gamesman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gamesman. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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