one-upmanship

Noun

Meaning

the practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

wile advantage competition prestige duality dualism cunning hypocrisy prerogative falsehood preponderance cutthroat artifice duplicity preeminence
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Antonyms

accuracy integrity simplicity authenticity ignorance innocence
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Hypernyms

practice pattern

Related terms

one-downmanship

Examples

That leads to some shows when the Shockers are taking batting practice and, of course, a friendly game of one-upmanship. Source: Internet

US ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher, forgetting her diplomatic posting, added a dash of one-upmanship. Source: Internet

“Instead we have got yet another event managed by centralised government resulting, inevitably, in political one-upmanship.” Source: Internet

On the one hand, we were competing on one-upmanship. Source: Internet

We are not looking to our elected officials for posturing, malign sound bites and bitter one-upmanship. Source: Internet

"We've been texting each other for years, and he would always send me pictures of wildflowers and so forth to identify," Gilbreth said, recalling a bit of banter and jovial one-upmanship to the ongoing exchange. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

one-up-manship one-up-one-down one-up-womanship one-upsmanship one-upwomanship one-use