dirty tricks
Example Sentences
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His memoir, “The Deception Game,” reveals these dirty tricks in a rare eyewitness account of how states work to gain what is now called an information advantage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Perhaps the masters of the dark arts, dirty tricks or marginal gains, depending on how you view such things, were Cambridge United in the early 1990s.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
Author Fabcaro and illustrator Didier Conrad have opted for a classic storytelling blend of fights, dirty tricks, local specialities -- and an encounter with Caesar himself.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
But for all the talk of South Carolina’s penchant for dirty tricks, the state also values the glad hand.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
Besides running covert operations, including dirty tricks known as sabotage, Franklin’s work would include gathering intelligence, sending out counterintelligence agents to hunt for moles and British spies, and using propaganda against England.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
