ONE-UPMANSHIP


Meaning of ONE-UPMANSHIP in English

If you refer to someone’s behaviour as ~, you disapprove of them trying to make other people feel inferior in order to make themselves appear more important.

...political ~.

N-UNCOUNT: oft supp N disapproval

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