Definitions for sportsmanship

sportsmanship sports·man·ship

Spelling: [spawrts-muh n-ship, spohrts-]
IPA: /ˈspɔrts mənˌʃɪp, ˈspoʊrts-/

Sportsmanship is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 1517 anagrams from letters in sportsmanship (ahimnopprssst).

Definitions for sportsmanship

noun

  1. the character, practice, or skill of a sportsman.
  2. sportsmanlike conduct, as fairness, courtesy, being a cheerful loser, etc.

Origin of sportsmanship

First recorded in 1735-45; sportsman + -ship

Examples for sportsmanship

One likes to contemplate the sportsmanship of that function.

The third element of sportsmanship is the grace of a good loser.

If I were in the old preserves, you should have no cause to jeer at my sportsmanship.'

But we think the English are fools with their sportsmanship and all that.

The nicest thing about him, Clancy decided, was his sportsmanship.

Pluck and sportsmanship is always the criterion, not merely victory.

Kessenich, to be fair, has also lavished the Iroquois with praise for their skills and sportsmanship in subsequent games.

sportsmanship, sheer sportsmanship, carried him through all!

That is, it the Israeli delegation has the courage, the sportsmanship to agree.

But JFK backed down when Cronkite called it “the lousiest bit of sportsmanship I ever saw in my life.”

Word Value for sportsmanship
Scrable

22

Words with friends

25

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