How to Use dirty tricks in a Sentence

dirty tricks

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  • Across the South, voting restrictions, Jim Crow laws and dirty tricks wiped Black people from the polls.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Vladimir Putin has copied some of his electoral dirty tricks.
    — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2020
  • But the prospect of more dirty tricks from Roger Stone can never be dismissed.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 6 Mar. 2018
  • But without a doubt, Democrats will be up to the same old predictable dirty tricks and tactics.
    — Fox News, 28 July 2018
  • The ruling party used all manner of dirty tricks to pervert the vote, but still lost.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • But the exam is marred not only by dirty tricks such as the one that denied Ms Chen her place.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2020
  • The problem is not that her campaign was thwarted by dirty tricks.
    — Monitor Editors, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The four 1960 debates were not without dirty tricks, Bill Newcott writes for Nat Geo.
    — National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2020
  • An element of what Mr. Oakes offered his clients was dirty tricks.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The mating game can be brutal, and competing males cheat, sneak, steal, and use other dirty tricks to get the female.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • Who knows what dirty tricks the Trump campaign might try, or how inscrutable swing voters might react?
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Never mind that the pious hosts were to toast a rough-and-tumble team known for its dirty tricks and abrasive behavior.
    — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 30 June 2021
  • And when the stakes are higher, companies are more likely to use agencies that resort to dirty tricks — and the public ought to know about those tricks, too.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 17 Nov. 2018
  • Speaking of Trump, the CA shenanigans arguably mark the third episode in which dirty tricks or old-fashioned fraud can be tied in some way to his victory.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Hiring private detectives to spy on labor unions was one of the classic dirty tricks of the period.
    — April White, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Kenneth Whyte brings to life these pioneering days of febrile dramas, dirty tricks, wild stunts and pure genius.
    — Les Hinton, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • There are allegations of espionage and dirty tricks by a foreign power during a race for the White House.
    — The Economist, 23 Feb. 2020
  • That Shimu needs to pull off a few dirty tricks in order to edge closer to the finish line is less indicative of her own failings than of that of an entire system.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Another link to the present is Roger Stone, a Cohn protege who carried on the tradition of dirty tricks through the Trump administration.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 2 Oct. 2019
  • 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 term evokes memories of dirty tricks and October surprises.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 15 Feb. 2023
  • While waiting on the Lord to cast His ballot, Moore has sued political action committees that ran dirty tricks against him.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Time bred impatience, and to hasten the end stage of its scheme, the cabal resorted to dirty tricks, stealing seats on the court and filling them with its most devout loyalists.
    — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • There are dirty tricks and savage violence, too: jealous guarding of territory leads some men to plant poison to take out the dogs of their rivals.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
  • What all this obscures is the more immediate point: The dossier amounts to one of the dirtiest tricks in U.S. political history.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2017
  • Again, the candidate who went on to win showed his fears, which were based on Mr. Nixon’s conviction that Democratic dirty tricks in 1960 had denied him the presidency.
    — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
  • With the struggle heating up, the campaigns have accused each other of dirty tricks and reported shouting and harassment.
    — Sarah Wu, The Seattle Times, 11 June 2018
  • The file cabinet, in the summer of 1986, yielded its treasure after all: The folder contained notes that appear to reveal the Rajneeshees’ dirty tricks playbook.
    — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Ringside fans took it all very seriously, each bout a clearcut case of good versus evil, where good girls followed the rules while bad girls cheated, and the referees always seemed blind to dirty tricks.
    — Thallman, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023

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