dirty pool

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nounInformal.
  1. unethical, unfair, or unsportsmanlike conduct.

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How to use dirty pool in a sentence

  • The above was in allusion to the old ceremony of being dragged through the dirty pool to be made a Freeman of the town of Alnwick.

  • Most of these were actually dry, but many of them contained a dirty pool of stagnant water.

    In Indian Mexico (1908) | Frederick Starr
  • Two of them bear on their heads each a large basket of dirty clothes they are taking to some dirty pool to wash.

    Wintering in the Riviera | William Miller
  • By the pump, the horse-trough, and the dirty pool I knew that there was entertainment there for man and horse.

    A Tramp's Wallet | William Duthie
  • Putting the poor animal's head into this dirty pool, and keeping it there till it was nearly suffocated.

    The Young Musician | Horatio Alger