What's the difference between outmanoeuvre and outsmart?
Outmanoeuvre
Definition:
(v. t.) To surpass, or get an advantage of, in maneuvering; to outgeneral.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was a damning final match for a West Ham manager completely outmanoeuvred by his opposite number, Roberto Martínez, who salvaged this match with a double half-time substitution.
(2) That is the most frustrating aspect of the current political debate, because in an effort to outmanoeuvre one another, our leaders are making promises to enact a policy for which the benefits are dubious.
(3) • Forces across England did not know how to respond to social media networks, particularly encrypted BlackBerry messaging, which enabled rioters and looters to organise and at times outmanoeuvre police.
(4) There are already signs that he is being outmanoeuvred by Cruz when it comes to recruiting delegates.
(5) Having already outmanoeuvred James Tomkins, Moyes’s prize asset shot low beyond Steve Mandanda’s reach, leaving Ledley staring at the floor.
(6) But the regime's counterattack has outmanoeuvred the poorly disciplined and ill-trained rebels who barely made a stand at Brega before fleeing toward Ajdabiya.
(7) Vlad flashed a half-hearted smile, keen not to look outmanoeuvred by such third-rate power games.
(8) Tearing up the rules of Brussels conduct, Tspiras and Varoufakis, his finance minister-cum-field marshal, have outmanoeuvred and divided the surplus states by constantly re-engaging, over five months, from unexpected, demanding and outrageous battle positions.” It is, of course, possible that Tsipras has overplayed his hand.
(9) The game against Liverpool was supposed to be pivotal in itself, a chance for Chelsea to copy the blueprint that was so successful when they outmanoeuvred Manchester City at the Etihad in February.
(10) Desperate public bodies were gulled and outmanoeuvred with the blessing of central government, which sought only to keep the corporations off its back and the liabilities off its balance sheets.
(11) The west is being "outspent, outmanoeuvred and out-strategised" by violent Islamic extremism, Tony Blair has warned.
(12) They would eventually get a consolation goal, Omar Gonzalez heading home a Camilo Sanvezzo free-kick in injury time, but they had been thoroughly outmanoeuvred.
(13) Well, he certainly outmanoeuvred the so-called Hotmail plot of Blairite ministers and backbenchers.
(14) By the time of the show he had upped the rhetoric to claim that Boeing was outmanoeuvring Airbus: "We've got them boxed and bracketed."
(15) Netanyahu has also refused to give ground on Jerusalem; has yet to endorse the US-backed road-map concept of a two-state solution; insists the Palestinian leadership must first accept his definition of Israel as a Jewish state; and has refused to contemplate returning the Golan Heights to Syria, another crucial part of the Arab-Israeli peace jigsaw.The only issue that Netanyahu and Obama appear to have agreed on is the threat posed by Iran, and on this, the US leader was outmanoeuvred.
(16) Ever since taking office in 2006, Mr Maliki has failed to be the national leader he should have been and, instead, has devoted himself to propping up his own Shia base, outmanoeuvring or subordinating rivals, and, increasingly, to excluding Sunnis from political power.
(17) Dusan and [Steven] Davis were fantastic.” Fraser Forster had palmed away a Raheem Sterling shot after Iheanacho had outmanoeuvred Virgil van Dijk on the touchline but Southampton were into their stride early on and within eight minutes of that chance for Sterling, City were two down and blue shirts in defence wore vacant stares.
(18) Europe and the US sat on the sidelines of the Syrian conflict, again outmanoeuvred by Russian intervention.
(19) If they promoted positive lesbian- and gay-rights policies, the Tories could outmanoeuvre Labour and win over more gay voters.
(20) Can this bruised and battered army, ridiculed for abandoning its promises on tuition fees, outmanoeuvred by its Tory partners over electoral reform, and struggling under a leader who went from national hero before the election to national hate figure after, really recover to its pre-election heights of 20% and more in the polls?
Outsmart
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "Virgin Trains has not been liked by the DfT because the department holds the view that it has been outsmarted and outgunned in commercial negotiations in previous years.
(2) "If you want to get on, certainly in tabloid journalism, then you have to outsmart the criminals and outsmart all these lawyers who are in it for the money.
(3) For more than a month, Russians around the country have been buying up candles and matches, salt and torches in an effort to outsmart the apocalypse some believe will come when the Mayan calendar runs out on Friday .
(4) Luckily for the viewer, if not for Breslin, he's not so easily outsmarted.
(5) In the process, he must figure out how to outsmart his captor and escape.
(6) There are no easy games in this competition.” South Africa’s Fourie du Preez, who plays his club rugby in Japan, described the result as the low point of his career and said the Springboks had been outsmarted.
(7) The reflex reaction to an act of mass terror was not to outsmart, out-think and marginalise the new enemy – it was to get even by being even more violent, lawless and vicious, leading Nato into the Afghan quagmire, and the coalition in Iraq.
(8) Murdoch, who knows how to outsmart his enemies, moved to gain control of events by saying he would withdraw his undertaking to spin off Sky News 30 minutes before Hunt spoke.
(9) There’s another Gypsy world champion.” Billy Joe Saunders outsmarts Andy Lee to win WBO middleweight title Read more He had just dethroned his fellow Traveller Andy Lee over 12 tense rounds, decking him twice in the third, but he was aware, too, that the media have been hunting down every squeak and indiscretion of the first member of their community to win a world heavyweight title, Tyson Fury.
(10) "Not even a big agent like Jorge Mendes can outsmart me," Zahovic told DNvevnik.
(11) It wasn't that I was being outsmarted necessarily, but I just felt different.
(12) Sherlock outsmarted the competition with almost 8 million viewers tuning into watch the climax of the super sleuth's battle against arch nemesis Moriarty in the final episode on Sunday night.
(13) Yet the teetotaller, a traditional Zulu with four wives and 21 children, has outsmarted and outmanoeuvred every political rival to retain an iron grip on the governing party.
(14) The studios are normally in the running; but they've been outsmarted in the recent past."
(15) They just outsmarted us.” The Springbok captain, Jean de Villiers, told the BBC that South Africa could still bounce back.
(16) "I feel sorry for him, the other parties outsmarted him," Narayan said.
(17) Interview Part two: On Lionel Messi, Teddy Sheringham and outsmarting defenders Guardian US sports has live minute-by-minute coverage of all MLS playoff games, including the second leg of LA Galaxy vs Real Salt Lake
(18) Even when Lawson became chancellor and Peter Walker succeeded him at energy, Lawson still played a crucial role in trying to outsmart Rooke.
(19) But it is still being outsmarted by Aldi, Lidl and domestic chains such as Musgrave’s SuperValu.
(20) A ll but lost in the excitement of Everton not only winning at Manchester United for the first time in more than 20 years but having a left-back in the opposition penalty area in the 86th minute looking to score a goal was the consideration that Roberto Martínez outsmarted David Moyes in the transfer window as well as on the Old Trafford pitch.