How to Use dirty/mean/rotten trick in a Sentence

dirty/mean/rotten trick

noun

• But in the race to be the top genetics-spreader, the males have evolved a dirty trick.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2010
• Spurgin’s friends played a dirty trick on him at that point.
  — Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2021
• Every team across the league has been pulling the same dirty trick that does nothing but hurt the fans, players and the game.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 2 Mar. 2022
• The campaign season dirty trick led to Trump's first impeachment.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 16 Mar. 2022
• This latest PayPal invoice drama, of course, isn't the only dirty trick out there.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2020
• The facts in the indictment add to the evidence that this was from first to last a dirty trick by Hillary Clinton's campaign—and that the media were its gullible promoters.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2021
• No matter who wins on Nov. 3 this year, Americans need to know the full story of how the last election was poisoned by the Russia collusion dirty trick.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2020
• Bishop Woods called it a political dirty trick by his son’s opponents.
  — al, 23 Aug. 2021
• But the case did perform a public service by exposing a major part of the 2016 Russian collusion dirty trick that hadn’t been previously told.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 May 2022
• With a number of Trump supporters working on the ground to advance West's campaign, many Democrats view his candidacy as a dirty trick by Republicans.
  — Jonathan Lemire , David Eggert, Star Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
• Bush’s team considered that a dirty trick by Walsh intended to influence the election, and indeed the president was defeated days later.
  — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2020
• Kai-Fu Lee attributes the success of Didi and other Chinese startups both to generous government support and to the country’s culture of ruthless competition, where no dirty trick is left off the table.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 7 July 2021
• In the immediate aftermath of this month’s crushing defeat for a radical Democratic nominee at the hands of a write-in candidate, many leftists decided to view the event as a political betrayal by moderate Democrats, or perhaps a dirty trick.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024