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Sportsmanlike

adjective

Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play. Synonyms: clean, sporting, sporty. "A sporting solution of the disagreement" , "Sportsmanlike conduct"

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"Sportsmanlike" Quotes from Famous Books

... killing them in addition to the sportsmanlike way of following on the trail, and thus by skill and endurance getting within range ...

— Three Boys in the Wild North Land • Egerton Ryerson Young

... one of Haughton's most valued scouts. Every fall Princeton is his haven of scouting. He does it most successfully and in a truly sportsmanlike way. ...

— Football Days - Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball • William H. Edwards

... many of Virginia's country gentlemen kept their own packs, but though some followed the hounds according to the English tradition, there developed a less sportsmanlike style of hunting called "hilltopping," under which the hunting men rode to an elevated point and watched the hounds run the fox, without themselves attempting to follow across country and be in at the kill. As a result, the fox was, if caught, ...

— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street