Synonyms of gamesmanship

gamesmanship

noun

ˈgāmz-mən-ˌship 

as in deception

the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end

that author doesn't go in for literary gamesmanship, so the reader is never led astray by the novel's narrator

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deception
• subterfuge
• skullduggery
• chicanery
• treachery
• deceptiveness
• trickery
• skulduggery
• artfulness
• secrecy
• jugglery
• cunning
• deceit
• stealth
• chicane
• scheming
• legerdemain
• hanky-panky
• jiggery-pokery
• plotting
• artifice
• deceitfulness
• wile
• underhandedness
• deviousness
• duplicity
• shrewdness
• hypocrisy
• sneakiness
• dishonesty
• slipperiness
• insincerity
• shiftiness
• slyness
• double-dealing
• shadiness
• craftiness
• fakery
• slickness
• wiliness
• crookedness
• design
• dissimulation
• guile
• caginess
• oiliness
• quackery
• crookery
• sharpness
• humbuggery
• imposture
• cageyness
• dupery
• foxiness
• dirty pool
• dirty tricks
• guilefulness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sincerity
• artlessness
• forthrightness
• ingenuousness
• guilelessness
• candor
• directness
• openness
• plainness
• candidness
• plainspokenness

Examples of gamesmanship in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For 75 years, New York City has experimented with rent controls — three-quarters of a century of rent manipulation and political gamesmanship that has made housing less affordable and less accessible to those who need it. —Joseph Strasburg, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024

As a matter of political gamesmanship, zeroing in on any issue that implicates reproductive health, menstruation among them, is a risky gambit for Republicans. —Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024

The fact that the default position of the news media had moved from skepticism to cynicism—implying that every political act was a form of partisan gamesmanship—certainly played a large part. —Joe Klein, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017

These adults, who are basically co-opting the kiddies in order to do battle with you, are also providing an example of adolescent gamesmanship. —Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2024