dirty pool
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Nay voters defended their position, saying their belief in American values wouldn’t allow them to engage in dirty pool.
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2025
He then plays some dirty pool by showing a headline from The New York Times about the buyer of the painting, cropping out the byline of the correspondent David D. Kirkpatrick.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2021
“Then she played dirty pool, and said, ‘If you go, the students might not enjoy it because they would be worrying about you,’” Barb recalled.
From Washington Times • Mar. 7, 2016
"That's dirty pool," said Robert Rehm, a Verizon Communications shareholder who also recently retired as a director of the Association of BellTel Retirees, which represents former Verizon workers.
From Reuters • Dec. 20, 2013
No room here for all the sordidness, meanness, and viciousness that filled the dirty pool of city existence.
From Burning Daylight by London, Jack
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