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Meanings of sportsmanlike in English

Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play.

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Usage of sportsmanlike in English
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There is a lamentable waste of capital on Squire Deacon's sportsmanlike propensities.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 / A Magazine...
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I think it would be sportsmanlike of you to accept the handicap.
The Light of the Western Stars
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The Giants are to be commended for playing clean, sportsmanlike Base Ball.
Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913
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The display of sportsmanlike qualities was not particularly tempting on this occasion.
The Blonde Lady / Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Ars...
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It wouldn't be sportsmanlike to let him die before the game begins.
The Winds of the World
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Her father, good-natured, careless, manly, as sportsmanlike and unbusinesslike as most Irishmen.
The Hippodrome
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He does it most successfully and in a truly sportsmanlike way.
Football Days / Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the B...
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It was not, however, possible to accept this sportsmanlike view of the situation.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier Wa...
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For everybody admired the game, sportsmanlike qualities of those Mechanicsburg fellows.
Fred Fenton on the Crew; Or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport Scho...
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It would be spite, not retaliation, and not at all sportsmanlike.
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
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For some space our opponents have been dead to honor an' sportsmanlike conduct.
The Light of the Western Stars
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It seems polite and sportsmanlike, indicating that there's no prejudice.
The Last Shot
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Looks little, weakens his influence as "our" man, and is not sportsmanlike.
The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
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To A, B is never quite sportsmanlike; B is provincial and bigoted and generally inferior.
The Last Shot
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The Place adherents had their favorites, but they always showed a sportsmanlike appreciation of opponents.
The Young Pitcher
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It would be more sportsmanlike to take two hundred.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
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