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gamesmanship 

To manipulate the truth using words and actions, with the intent of crafting the perception of others to your benefit.

It often has the appearance of, "playing dumb," or "bad luck".

It is not the individual occurrence that defines it, but the long-term pattern. "The truth is what I say it is."
Examples:

1. "Saying there is no such thing as 'emotional adultery' is just gamesmanship. You know you cannot have friends of the opposite sex without some kind of approval from me, as you would expect!"

2. "Your honor, it is gamesmanship for the State to deny my Work Comp, because they have failed to give me a legitimate hearing and they entertain a conflict of interest since it is there own money they are protecting."
gamesmanship by Reasonable2014 February 14, 2014
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Gamesmanship 

What I’m doing right now- by submitting this definition of ********, then getting my friends to upvote it, and then turning around and using this definition for a trivia question.

BINGPOT!
That BINGPOT! question is an excellent example of GAMESMANSHIP.
Gamesmanship by wr36 February 23, 2025
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Gamesmanship 

What I’m doing right now- by submitting this definition of ********, then getting my friends to upvote it, and then turning around and using this definition for a trivia question.

BINGPOT!
That BINGPOT! question is an excellent example of GAMESMANSHIP.
Gamesmanship by wr36 February 23, 2025

Deft Gamesmanship 

Science and art of arousing interest from the opposite sex with extreme cunning
Did see that, all he just looked her and she walked over. That my friend is deft gamesmanship
Deft Gamesmanship by thedeftgamer December 6, 2011
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