dirty trick


noun
  1. a malicious and contemptible action

  2. (plural)

    • underhand activity and machinations in political or governmental affairs

    • (as modifier): dirty-tricks operation

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How to use dirty trick in a sentence

  • Mrs. Greenough: I cannot give you very full information as to that, Sir; she had one very dirty trick.

  • Maybe I'm a horrible liar, all right—but I never done anybody a dirty trick like that.

    The Happy Family | Bertha Muzzy Bower
  • Thereupon we made an appointment for the next Sunday, and the fellow walked off without the least compunction for his dirty trick.

  • She wasn't, in fact, putting it past her aunt to have some involved dirty trick up her sleeve with this trip to Jontarou.

    Novice | James H. Schmitz
  • If they didn't use it against us, they'd use it for any sort of emergency dirty trick.

    Operation Terror | William Fitzgerald Jenkins