Similar words: showmanship, penmanship, workmanship, salesmanship, horsemanship, brinkmanship, chairmanship, marksmanship. Meaning: n. the practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor.
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1. This kind of one-upmanship is the very thing that Paul wants to avoid.
2. Tashi one-upmanship, eventually obtaining victory like riding.
3. The stakes get higher with each round of one-upmanship.
4. Also, since Japanese people are all about one-upmanship, they only eat baby shrimps.
5. Remember, cultural epochs come and go, but one-upmanship is forever.
6. China's one-upmanship with the United States continued earlier this month.
7. I do think that is one-upmanship compared with the popularity of internet.
8. But then in a glorious show of one-upmanship, another bridesmaid grabs the microphone and delivers a moving monologue peppered with humorous anecdotes and spiritually uplifting Thai proverbs.
9. This is part of the overall one-upmanship occurring in the porn industry over the last decade, the desperate scramble to attract attention through increasingly more over-the-top porn.
10. A feeling of one-upmanship has been brewing within you for a while, and it may crystallize unless you become aware of the tendency.
11. How do we know this relentless one-upmanship is a biological endowment?
12. Watching the children together gave reassurance that childhood is not all one-upmanship and go-for-the-jugular.
13. It was the expression of a man who'd won a trifling game of one-upmanship.
14. Gaskell is fascinated by the detail of ordinary lives. She explores the intricacies of 19th-century society through the hierarchies of bonnets and the one-upmanship of lace.
15. Especially in the dump area and the exclusion of one-upmanship.
16. But there are also friends who can be bad for us in emotion, and sometimes subtler ways with sly insults,(Sentencedict.com) and competitive one-upmanship.
17. John, 35, a builder, says he and a friend got into sewing as a form of one-upmanship.
18. On the surface it might just appear like a simple case of one-upmanship , but it actually represents major forces digging in online and preparing to do battle.
19. They suggest that the advice, justifiably or not, comes across to us as one-upmanship, or assertion of dominance, or criticism, or distrust, or failure to consider our own unique goals and priorities.
20. Buying luxury goods, conversely, tends to be an endless cycle of one-upmanship, in which the neighbors have a fancy new car and — bingo! — now you want one, too,[sentencedict.com] scholars say.
21. Whether it's about choices around education, feeding, sleeping or even something as simple as the name you have given your child, we are all playing a desperate game of one-upmanship.
22. First, you should be far better than the details of one-upmanship.
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