stack the cards

VERB

play dirty

Synonyms

WEAK

bamboozle beguile bend the rules bilk burn caboodle chisel con deceive defraud do a number on double-cross double-deal dupe finagle fleece flimflam fudge hit below the belt hoodwink hose mislead pull something funny rip off rook sandbag scam screw shaft stretch the rules sucker swindle trick victimize

Example Sentences

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"You can't really stack the cards against a character much higher."

From Time Magazine Archive

The posse in the valley—that was what would stack the cards against them.

From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson

A man out here don't holler if you beat him fair, but if you stack the cards on him, that's different.

From Heart's Desire by Hough, Emerson

He means so that no will-breaking brothers or cousins can stack the cards agin you.

From Money Magic A Novel by Garland, Hamlin

I have a hard game ahead of me and I'm going to stack the cards.

From The Garden of Eden by Brand, Max