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单词 dirty tricks
释义

dirty tricks

plural noun

: underhanded stratagems for obtaining secret information about or sabotaging an enemy or for discrediting an opponent (as in politics)
dirty trickster noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web A day after Crawford said Konstantinov was a master of dirty tricks and deserved a penalty on every shift, Konstantinov kept smiling and laughing. Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2022 This snazzy but pandering miniseries takes a recognizably post-Trump approach to the Nixon administration's dirty tricks. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2022 Chamisa, a 40-year-old lawyer running on an anti-corruption, pro-employment platform, is obviously the people’s candidate, but can his team buck the dirty tricks and ballot-stuffing of his adversary? Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2022 Experts say campaigns and their supporters are right on time for starting the intense and emotional negativity — early voting began Tuesday, and with it the electorate should expect to start seeing more dirty tricks. Ben Brasch, ajc, 12 Oct. 2021 While the Durham indictment details alleged dirty tricks by the Clinton campaign, there's also a big part of the 2016 story that's missing from it. Evan Perez, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021 More recently, Creamer and others tied to Democracy Partners got caught in 2016 on undercover video in Wisconsin talking about hiring agitators to create havoc at campaign rallies for then-GOP candidate Donald Trump and other political dirty tricks. Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2021 Because despite the state's tight controls over parties and the dirty tricks of the ruling United Russia, voting can make a difference. Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2021 The former Wall Street banker turned firebrand populist podcaster relished his moment in the spotlight, embracing victimhood in the name of Trumpism just like political dirty tricks master and Trump fan Roger Stone. Stephen Collinson, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above

dirty tricks

plural noun

as in dirty pool

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • dirty pool
  • dupery
  • humbuggery
  • secrecy
  • quackery
  • fakery
  • scheming
  • hypocrisy
  • stealth
  • plotting
  • deception
  • imposture
  • duplicity
  • guilefulness
  • dishonesty
  • cageyness
  • insincerity
  • deceit
  • crookedness
  • deceptiveness
  • design
  • slyness
  • guile
  • dissimulation
  • cunning
  • shrewdness
  • underhandedness
  • deceitfulness
  • treachery
  • shiftiness
  • slipperiness
  • slickness
  • sneakiness
  • cunning
  • subterfuge
  • oiliness
  • wiliness
  • deviousness
  • artfulness
  • trickery
  • double-dealing
  • craftiness
  • wile
  • crookery
  • chicanery
  • skulduggery
  • legerdemain
  • shadiness
  • sharpness
  • skullduggery
  • caginess
  • chicane
  • jugglery
  • hanky-panky
  • gamesmanship
  • foxiness
  • jiggery-pokery
  • artifice

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sincerity
  • forthrightness
  • guilelessness
  • artlessness
  • ingenuousness
  • openness
  • directness
  • candor
  • plainspokenness
  • candidness
  • plainness
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