dirty trick
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
Mr. Bush considered that a dirty trick by Mr. Walsh to influence the election and indeed he was defeated days later.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2020
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
“That’s a dirty trick to play on a man, any man. Somebody ought to tell him. I’ll tell him.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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