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sportsmanly

adjective as in sportsmanlike

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Polite smiles and sportsmanly high-fives were exchanged across the handrails.

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At one point in the second half of the game against San Antonio, after yet another intentional foul, Harden started yapping good-naturedly at Gregg Popovich, the Spurs’ coach, and the two proceeded to have a sportsmanly conversation.

As a nation, I think we can never be too thankful for the lesson our kinspeople have to teach us in sportsmanly moderation and in chivalry toward an opponent.

The spectators, who had been rooting for the Cubans, responded with sportsmanly chants of "Cuba no, Yankees si.'"

Thus Japan's Crown Prince is still the Emperor's brother, sportsmanly Prince Chichibu who figure-skates, baseballs, golfs, fences.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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