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单词 one-upmanship
释义
one-upmanship
(wʌnʌpmənʃɪp )
uncountable noun
If you refer to someone's behaviour as one-upmanship, you disapprove of them trying to make other people feel inferior in order to make themselves appear more important. [disapproval]
It was the expression of a man who'd won a trifling game of one-upmanship.
...political one-upmanship.
Collocations:
game of one-upmanship
Competitiveness comes in a different guise: an awesomely sophisticated game of one-upmanship.
Times, Sunday Times
In a testy yet peculiarly funny game of one-upmanship two or three at a time periodically roll between an anchoring row of upstage seats.
Times, Sunday Times
Beneath the façade lies a game of one-upmanship.
Times, Sunday Times
But in our new age of austerity, the global game of one-upmanship has changed.
Times, Sunday Times
Inevitably, neighbours are in uproar at this game of one-upmanship, or should that be five-upmanship?
Times, Sunday Times
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