lifemanship
Americannoun
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the ability to conduct one's life, career, personal relationships, etc., in a successful manner.
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the skill or practice of conveying to others a real or apparent sense of one's superiority.
Etymology
Origin of lifemanship
First recorded in 1945–50; life + -manship; popularized, especially in sense of lifemanship def. 2, by the book Some Notes on Lifemanship (1950) by British author Stephen Potter (1900–69)
Example Sentences
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From Stephen Potter issued the famed laws of lifemanship.
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