stacked deck
Example Sentences
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While there’s no doubt that both made serious mistakes, “Richard Jewell” seems to be playing with a rather stacked deck.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
However, the professor’s central assertion remains strong: that the solidarity of kinship is a stacked deck.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2018
That's more than a stacked deck against Klinsmann; it's the whole casino.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013
Only Ms. Smith, an institution on the soap opera “One Life to Live,” faces a stacked deck playing Risa, a tired cartoon of that slave to impulse, the bored wife.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2011
In his not terribly clean uniform, wearing knee-high Cretan boots, Captain Kontoulis scrutinized running lights, stacked deck chairs, lifeboats.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
