dirty wars

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of dirty war.
  dirty war

  noun

  a war conducted by the military or secret police of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the regime's use of kidnapping, torture, and murder, with members of the civilian population often the victims.

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dirty wars

The upheaval now is a far cry from the military coups and dirty wars that scarred the region during the Cold War.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2019

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