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Art or practice of achieving superiority or an appearance of superiority over people by perplexing and demoralizing them.

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Usage examples (4)
  • 'It puts them several notches up in lifemanship,' Gail said coolly.
  • The fact is, you and I know people are engaged in all sorts of life choices, lifemanship, while they're watching TV.
  • I suspect there's a bit of lifemanship/gamesmanship/oneupmanship going on here.
  • In School For Scoundrels, he played a chump who tries to better himself by joining up for a course in lifemanship, while in
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