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
He was caught on camera deliberately disturbing the penalty spot with his boot, a most despicable dirty trick, and then chases down the referee to tell him why his penalty decision was wrong.
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2022
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
He was never quite sure who’d played that dirty trick on him in the first place.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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