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Dirty tricks   /dˈərti trɪks/   Listen
Dirty tricks

noun
1.
Underhand commercial or political behavior designed to discredit an opponent.






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"Dirty tricks" Quotes from Famous Books



... and hold your tongue," he said. "I will have nothing to do with your dirty tricks. I will settle the ...
— Angelot - A Story of the First Empire • Eleanor Price

... had Mason Peters, who was a wonder on the slide trombone. But he was only getting twelve dollars a week in Snyder's Shoe Emporium, and Paynesville, which never tired of putting up dirty tricks on us, hustled around and got him an eighteen dollar job up there—after which they came down to Homeburg at the first opportunity with their band to parade Peters before our eyes. It would have been a grand success if they hadn't put Peters in the front row. He lived for his art, Peters ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch

... of it," insisted Arthur. "Mershone is a natural cad; he's been guilty of all sorts of dirty tricks, and is capable of many more. If you'll watch out, Louise, you'll see that all the girls are shy of being found in his society, and all the chaperons cluck to their fledglings the moment the hawk appears. You're a novice in society just yet, my dear, and it won't do you ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society • Edith Van Dyne



Words linked to "Dirty tricks" :   doings, plural form, conduct, behaviour, plural, behavior



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