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dirty work

noun as in unpleasant or tedious work

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Trump may be a striver, but his biggest success is to get others to do his dirty work for him.

From Salon

Trump may be a striver, but his biggest success is to get others to do his dirty work for him.

From Salon

Russian state actors turned to proxies, such as private intelligence operatives, to do "their dirty work", but this impacted the professionalism of their operations and made them easier to disrupt.

From BBC

The incident prompted denunciations from rights groups who have long condemned Mexican authorities for doing what they call “America’s dirty work” by detaining U.S.-bound migrants and often transporting them back to southern Mexico.

“Not to place myself in the role of a victim — qué flojera — but I tend to focus on the unfairness of life and its profound sorrow, and there is definitely a lot of that going around, my brother. Every artist has a mission, and mine is singing to sadness. Somebody has to do the dirty work.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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