gamesman

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Recent Examples of gamesman Also featured: a scene in which Parsons, a gamesman who actually brought his own Connect Four board to Southern California training camp, faces backup quarterback Ben DiNucci in a chess match. Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021 Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection. Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019 The weapon-wielding gamesman responded by repeatedly punching Grayson, the younger man said. Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, 20 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gamesman
Noun
  • The modern health insurer is regarded as either a knave or a pawn and is seldom regarded as a knight.
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Till then, the always-in-hot-water antics of CIA attorney/reluctant spy Owen Hendricks (Centineo) keep us engaged and curious over how the troublemaking rascal is going to get out of another mess he’s made.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Orange cats have earned an online reputation for being chaotic, energetic rascals.
    Gayoung Lee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Gould observed that Jerry Falwell had taken up the mountebank’s mission of William Jennings Bryan.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • Now, this pallid Color Purple epitomizes the artistic dearth of an era when a cultural mountebank like Winfrey uses race and feminist guile to cheat us of America’s most creative achievements.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • One who comes to her full power when she is exiled by a charlatan, by a cruel leader.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The good, sincere members would flourish and the charlatans, the folks who over-promise to their constituents, would not.
    Gary Franks, Boston Herald, 20 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • And, of course, look for those with an axe to grind—from extremist groups to rogue states and struggling superpowers—to capitalize on the global lack of leadership to make gains.
    Maha Hosain Aziz, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The plan would also initiate the creation of an Economic Security Cooperation Board, a new institution with membership open to all countries except rogue states such as Iran, North Korea, Russia, and of course China.
    Eyck Freymann, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Milla — a young woman who feels disillusioned by doctors that treat her like a recalcitrant child, directing even conversations about her treatment to her father instead of her — finds false security in quacks selling enemas and juice cleanses.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Trump’s Insane Clown Posse Cabinet is very close to being filled with a cadre of fools and quacks, goons and thugs.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • John Elway was considered a postseason pretender when his Denver Broncos were annihilated in three Super Bowls over a four-year stretch, then finished his career by snagging the franchise’s first two championship rings.
    Tim Graham, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Every decision carries weight, and in a league where the line between contender and pretender is razor-thin, there’s little room for error.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In the last few years, perhaps after an adaptive mutation, bird flu has jumped to a wide number of mammal species, including seals, bears, skunks, foxes, cougars, bobcats, dolphins and even a polar bear.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The singer and actress selected a plunging LaPointe gown from the label’s pre-fall 2025 collection, layering on a fox fur coat.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 2 Feb. 2025

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“Gamesman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gamesman. Accessed 17 Feb. 2025.

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