All gamesmanship synonyms

noun gamesmanship

• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• fairness — the state, condition, or quality of being fair, or free from bias or injustice; evenhandedness: I have to admit, in all fairness, that she would only be paid for part of the work.
• honesty — the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
• virtue — moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
• sincerity — freedom from deceit, hypocrisy, or duplicity; probity in intention or in communicating; earnestness.
• ploy — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
• ruse — a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
• one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
• subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
• wile — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
• gimmick — an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
• righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
• honorable — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
• principle — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
• goodness — the state or quality of being good.
• honor — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
• forthright — going straight to the point; frank; direct; outspoken: It's sometimes difficult to be forthright and not give offense.
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• artfulness — slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky: artful schemes.
• competition — Competition is a situation in which two or more people or groups are trying to get something which not everyone can have.
• cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
• brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
• twist — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
• proposition — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
• pitch — to smear or cover with pitch.
• racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
• pretext — something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object; an ostensible reason; excuse: The leaders used the insults as a pretext to declare war.
• plot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
• story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
• angle — An angle is the difference in direction between two lines or surfaces. Angles are measured in degrees.
• scheme — a plan, design, or program of action to be followed; project.
• method — a procedure, technique, or way of doing something, especially in accordance with a definite plan: There are three possible methods of repairing this motor.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• maneuver — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
• play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• slant — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
• feint — a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
• game — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
• plan — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
• child — A child is a human being who is not yet an adult.
• device — A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
• layout — an arrangement or plan: We objected to the layout of the house.
• bit — A bit of something is a small part or section of it.
• scenario — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
• shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
• setup — Surveying. station (def 14a). a surveying instrument precisely positioned for observations from a station. a gap between the end of a chain or tape being used for a measurement and the point toward which it is laid.
• switch — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
• stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.