dirty trick
Britishnoun
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a malicious and contemptible action
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(plural)
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underhand activity and machinations in political or governmental affairs
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( as modifier )
dirty-tricks operation
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Example Sentences
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They asked contributors to “use every dirty trick you know to make your problems as brutal as possible,” says Elliot Glazer, a mathematician at Epoch AI who led the benchmark study.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2024
Cutting me off at the pass is a dirty trick.
From The Verge • Sep. 17, 2021
The major on-demand players have been equally fractious in their dealings with each other, jousting for workers and customers and employing the occasional dirty trick to find an edge.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2019
Despite trying every dirty trick in the book, Mr. Najib lost, and on Thursday Mr. Mahathir was sworn in once again as prime minister, making him the oldest government leader in the world.
From New York Times • May 12, 2018
He was never quite sure who’d played that dirty trick on him in the first place.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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