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
In scores of speeches and projects, she turned again and again to the stacked deck.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2016
Though it’s a brand new show, Fox’s “Gotham” is dealing from a stacked deck.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2014
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
