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Sportsmanlike

adjective
1.
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



... "if it did get away. We've got almost bears enough now, and besides, I don't know whether this is sportsmanlike or not, shooting bears from a boat. Anyhow, when an animal is swimming in the water and can't get away, I don't see the fun in killing it. Let's wait on the next one and ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Trail • Emerson Hough

... his side submissively into the net. The butt, however, must be applied at the proper moment, and when the proper stage of exhaustion is reached can be told only by experience. To return, however, to the formulas. The fish, being in the net and landed, is handled by myself only; the eager, sportsmanlike instinct of your man will have to be repressed, his first idea being to seize it and knock it on the head with a stone. I have sufficient respect for either salmon or grilse to finish them with the orthodox ...
— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior



Words linked to "Sportsmanlike" :   fair, just



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