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Definition of Sportsmanlike
1. Adjective. Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play. "Sportsmanlike conduct"
Definition of Sportsmanlike
1. Adjective. Demonstrating good sportsmanship, behaving in an honorable and appropriate manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sportsmanlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sportsmanlike
Literary usage of Sportsmanlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1824)
"... hounds are kept at the sole expence of Colonel Berkeley, whose sportsmanlike
conduct is highly esteemed. The other members of this establishment are ..."
2. The Real India by John David Rees (1908)
"... of Consent Act—Infant Marriage—Shastras of Antiquarian Interest only— Necessity
for Knowledge of Vernaculars—Value of sportsmanlike Habits—Difficulty of ..."
3. Athletics at Princeton: A History by Frank Presbrey, James Hugh Moffatt (1901)
"We believe that in the past our influence in the long run has stood for sportsmanlike
play, and that the weight of opinion of the majority at Princeton will ..."
4. Letters to Young Shooters on the Choice and Use of a Gun by Ralph Payne-Gallwey (1895)
"... AND SHOOTING GENE- BALLY, IN A sportsmanlike MANNER FAIR SHOOTING BECAUSE a
shooter is a crack shot, it by no means follows that he is an accomplished ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1902)
"It is the more important, therefore, that those who are in authority over the
games of the nation should see to it that the sportsmanlike spirit breathes ..."
6. An Inquiry Into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen (1917)
"and the degree of provocation required to upset the serenity of these sportsmanlike
modern peoples is a point on which the shrewdest guesses may diverge. ..."
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