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- noun Plural form of
sportsman .
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Examples
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Too bad hunters regularly recieve only negative media attention, while the actions of hunters as conservationist and good sportsmen is rarely reported.
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Too bad hunters regularly recieve only negative media attention, while the actions of hunters as conservationist and good sportsmen is rarely reported.
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And their usefulness to sportsmen is unparalleled.
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Nothing like a couple of household-name sportsmen to get the Met agitated, is there?
'Police put the phone down on my complaint over Twitter racial abuse' 2011
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She had seven eager so-called sportsmen to keep happy and busy for five days.
So Hard To Forget Crowe, Evelyn A 1997
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The white yacht was steaming away into the distance, with its so-called sportsmen congratulating themselves that they had almost certainly killed something.
Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901
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To my intelligence the shallow arguments of those takers of life called sportsmen was sufficient.
The Firing Line 1899
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I do not blame country legislators, game dealers, farmers, for calling the sportsmen of America selfish and thoughtless.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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Gardiner, reinforced by so-called sportsmen from other parts of the state, of all the park elk they could kill, -- bulls, cows and calves, -- because a large band wandered across the line into the shambles of Gardiner, on Buffalo Flats.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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The fields during the quail season are filled with so-called sportsmen to such an extent that one has every chance of being mistaken for a quail, and potted accordingly.
Sketches From My Life Pasha, Hobart 1887
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