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Sportsmanlike

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Adjective

1. clean, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty

exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play

Example Sentences:
'a clean fight'
'a sporting solution of the disagreement'
'sportsmanlike conduct'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sportsmanlike

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noun plural -men
1. 
a man who takes part in sports, esp of the outdoor type
2. 
a person who exhibits qualities highly regarded in sport, such as fairness, generosity, observance of the rules, and good humour when losing

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Sportsmanlike

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nounWord forms: plural ˈsportsmen (ˈspɔrtsmən ; spôrtsˈmən)
1. 
a man who is interested in or takes part in sports, esp. in hunting, fishing, etc.
2. 
a person who can take loss or defeat without complaint, or victory without gloating, and who treats his opponents with fairness, generosity, courtesy, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sportsmanlike

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n.
1. A man who is active in sports.
2. A person whose conduct and attitude exhibit sportsmanship.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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