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Definition of dirty trick in English: dirty tricknoun 1A dishonest or unkind act. Example sentencesExamples - The critics said that there was no reason to believe the unsigned memo originated with Republicans and that there was considerable reason to suspect a Democratic dirty trick.
- The parking ticket is a dirty trick played by my political opponents, and the mismatched socks were a staff error.
- It's ludicrous to assume that we did this… It's a political dirty trick.
- For those familiar with Colson's good works and charitable contributions, the review reads like a dirty trick or, in the words of the review, a ‘smear job.’
- That this sort of thing hurts Kerry makes me wonder if it's an anti-Kerry dirty trick.
- Here, you have the Republican Party's most beloved Vietnam veteran saying publicly, with no holds barred and within the same news cycle that this is a dirty trick and that they president should disavow any knowledge of it.
- Circumstantially, it seems extremely likely that it was produced by Democrats as a political dirty trick.
- It isn't a dirty trick to challenge petitions or how they were gathered.
- The riot was a dirty trick which was pulled off through the use of deception, and Bloggergate is the same thing.
- The first day could even be called something of a dirty trick.
- So what I've been hearing in the last week, and it remains to be seen, maybe this was all a Republican dirty trick.
- Everyone agrees that it's all a dirty trick by the New York Times, and they should have had ‘all the facts’ before they put this on the front page.
- Clocking is the oldest dirty trick in the book, and though it is illegal to knowingly sell a clocked motor, it is perfectly legal to advertise and carry out ‘mileage adjustments’.
- And the fact that he says it was a dirty trick to spread this - this at the last minute, indicates that he thinks it's embarrassing, it was something shameful, it was something he tried to hide.
- Keel admitted he knew his wife was pulling a political dirty trick and tried hard to rehab his own image within both the campaign and the media.
- While the creation of the ‘talking points memo’ didn't turn out to be a Democratic dirty trick, the media's treatment of the memo was misleading at best.
- It wasn't until later in the day that I saw the sweaty, goggle-eyed faces of the weather forecasters on the television and realised that somebody, somewhere, was playing a dirty trick on me.
- When Deakin himself died, less than a year later, and Bacon had to identify the body, he appreciated that it was the photographer's final joke: ‘The last dirty trick he played on me,’ he said.
- So was it a crime, a dirty trick, a slip of the tongue, or none of the above?
- One presumes that the pledge of confidentiality binding Novak also gags these reporters, preventing them from pursuing the big story of who leaked, who played the dirty trick, or who may have broken federal law.
Synonyms plotting, planning, conspiracy, collusion, conniving, scheming, machination, trickery, sharp practice, double-dealing, unscrupulousness, underhandedness, deviousness, subterfuge - 1.1dirty tricks Underhand political or commercial activity designed to discredit an opponent.
Example sentencesExamples - I hope this is not the start of a dirty tricks campaign by my opponents.
- He says, ‘This settlement demonstrates there was a dirty tricks campaign mounted against me and other prominent opponents of the war.’
- Are they enjoying watching the US media being discredited by propaganda and dirty tricks one by one?
- Michelle Stewart from Kinning Park nursery says, ‘Despite all the dirty tricks from the council we are standing firm.’
- The media by now were concentrating on the alleged dirty tricks of the two parties over the broadcast and the parties found it difficult to get the media to report anything else.
- Over the next few months, a sustained campaign of dirty tricks was set in motion to create precisely those circumstances.
- It was accused of dirty tricks and unfair intervention to secure his victory in the provincial presidential election last fall.
- These safeguards were put in place in the aftermath of a documented history of systematic spying, infiltration and dirty tricks by police agencies and the FBI.
- We as the electorate, have the ability to turn party political dirty tricks in to cold hard cash.
- Even Nader's liberal criticisms were beyond the pale, and the Democrats waged a concerted campaign of dirty tricks and frivolous lawsuits to bar him from the ballot in dozens of states and drain his campaign of resources.
- Even though negative ads are often effective, many people consider them to be little more than political dirty tricks.
- They concluded that they had to adopt extra-parliamentary means - the methods of political conspiracy, dirty tricks and usurpation - to obtain their ends.
- It has a long and notorious history of surveillance, harassment and dirty tricks directed against left-wing political activists and organisations.
- A historical exposé of any key industry will uncover exploitation and dirty tricks.
- Initially the pickets were very optimistic that the dispute could be resolved quickly in the face of the embarrassing exposure of the employer's dirty tricks.
- This loophole opens the door to covert action and dirty tricks.
- This highlights the need to investigate smears posing as ‘investigative journalism’, which in this case proved to be a campaign by the media and government, with dirty tricks courtesy of the security services.
- He is supposedly a self-made millionaire, but it becomes apparent that he did not achieve his wealth without dirty tricks and criminal activities.
Synonyms deceit, deception, duplicity, lying, falseness, falsity, falsehood, untruthfulness
Definition of dirty trick in US English: dirty tricknounˈdərdi ˈˌtrɪk 1A dishonest or unkind act. Example sentencesExamples - The parking ticket is a dirty trick played by my political opponents, and the mismatched socks were a staff error.
- And the fact that he says it was a dirty trick to spread this - this at the last minute, indicates that he thinks it's embarrassing, it was something shameful, it was something he tried to hide.
- One presumes that the pledge of confidentiality binding Novak also gags these reporters, preventing them from pursuing the big story of who leaked, who played the dirty trick, or who may have broken federal law.
- That this sort of thing hurts Kerry makes me wonder if it's an anti-Kerry dirty trick.
- The critics said that there was no reason to believe the unsigned memo originated with Republicans and that there was considerable reason to suspect a Democratic dirty trick.
- It's ludicrous to assume that we did this… It's a political dirty trick.
- Keel admitted he knew his wife was pulling a political dirty trick and tried hard to rehab his own image within both the campaign and the media.
- Everyone agrees that it's all a dirty trick by the New York Times, and they should have had ‘all the facts’ before they put this on the front page.
- The riot was a dirty trick which was pulled off through the use of deception, and Bloggergate is the same thing.
- So was it a crime, a dirty trick, a slip of the tongue, or none of the above?
- It isn't a dirty trick to challenge petitions or how they were gathered.
- For those familiar with Colson's good works and charitable contributions, the review reads like a dirty trick or, in the words of the review, a ‘smear job.’
- Here, you have the Republican Party's most beloved Vietnam veteran saying publicly, with no holds barred and within the same news cycle that this is a dirty trick and that they president should disavow any knowledge of it.
- Clocking is the oldest dirty trick in the book, and though it is illegal to knowingly sell a clocked motor, it is perfectly legal to advertise and carry out ‘mileage adjustments’.
- The first day could even be called something of a dirty trick.
- It wasn't until later in the day that I saw the sweaty, goggle-eyed faces of the weather forecasters on the television and realised that somebody, somewhere, was playing a dirty trick on me.
- Circumstantially, it seems extremely likely that it was produced by Democrats as a political dirty trick.
- So what I've been hearing in the last week, and it remains to be seen, maybe this was all a Republican dirty trick.
- When Deakin himself died, less than a year later, and Bacon had to identify the body, he appreciated that it was the photographer's final joke: ‘The last dirty trick he played on me,’ he said.
- While the creation of the ‘talking points memo’ didn't turn out to be a Democratic dirty trick, the media's treatment of the memo was misleading at best.
Synonyms plotting, planning, conspiracy, collusion, conniving, scheming, machination, trickery, sharp practice, double-dealing, unscrupulousness, underhandedness, deviousness, subterfuge - 1.1dirty tricks Underhanded political or commercial activity designed to discredit an opponent or competitor.
Example sentencesExamples - It was accused of dirty tricks and unfair intervention to secure his victory in the provincial presidential election last fall.
- Even Nader's liberal criticisms were beyond the pale, and the Democrats waged a concerted campaign of dirty tricks and frivolous lawsuits to bar him from the ballot in dozens of states and drain his campaign of resources.
- I hope this is not the start of a dirty tricks campaign by my opponents.
- The media by now were concentrating on the alleged dirty tricks of the two parties over the broadcast and the parties found it difficult to get the media to report anything else.
- Michelle Stewart from Kinning Park nursery says, ‘Despite all the dirty tricks from the council we are standing firm.’
- Even though negative ads are often effective, many people consider them to be little more than political dirty tricks.
- This loophole opens the door to covert action and dirty tricks.
- We as the electorate, have the ability to turn party political dirty tricks in to cold hard cash.
- They concluded that they had to adopt extra-parliamentary means - the methods of political conspiracy, dirty tricks and usurpation - to obtain their ends.
- He says, ‘This settlement demonstrates there was a dirty tricks campaign mounted against me and other prominent opponents of the war.’
- A historical exposé of any key industry will uncover exploitation and dirty tricks.
- Initially the pickets were very optimistic that the dispute could be resolved quickly in the face of the embarrassing exposure of the employer's dirty tricks.
- This highlights the need to investigate smears posing as ‘investigative journalism’, which in this case proved to be a campaign by the media and government, with dirty tricks courtesy of the security services.
- Are they enjoying watching the US media being discredited by propaganda and dirty tricks one by one?
- Over the next few months, a sustained campaign of dirty tricks was set in motion to create precisely those circumstances.
- These safeguards were put in place in the aftermath of a documented history of systematic spying, infiltration and dirty tricks by police agencies and the FBI.
- He is supposedly a self-made millionaire, but it becomes apparent that he did not achieve his wealth without dirty tricks and criminal activities.
- It has a long and notorious history of surveillance, harassment and dirty tricks directed against left-wing political activists and organisations.
Synonyms deceit, deception, duplicity, lying, falseness, falsity, falsehood, untruthfulness
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