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Competitive guile
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gamesmanship
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The use of legal but unsporting tactics to gain an advantage over one’s opponent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ political gamesmanship EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And why indeed should gamesmanship not exist in disabled sport when it is rife everywhere else? ▪ Not all my encounters with the world of academic gamesmanship were so chilly. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gamesmanship is the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win or gain a serious advantage in a game or sport. It has been described as "Pushing the rules to the limit without getting caught, using whatever dubious methods possible ...
Usage examples of gamesmanship.
As an adult it amused him to add new layers of role-playing and gamesmanship to an otherwise dreary life.
Nom Anor was to the gamesmanship of politics, the subtle mockery of this half-pagan creature was too much.
Had the Romulans succeeded in keeping that subspace singularity, his political gamesmanship might even have jeopardized the entire universe.
The business of the Collegia was learning, after all, not gamesmanship.
This is not surprising, since it is perhaps the subtlest and most refined outdoor sport ever devised, riddled with craft and gamesmanship, and affording endless scope to a character such as his.
She found it a witty and ingenious commentary on the dangerous schoolboy shenanigans of superpower gamesmanship.