Synonyms of dirty tricks

dirty tricks

plural noun

as in dirty pool

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of dirty tricks

Still employing Cohn’s old dirty tricks, Trump frequently vows legal retribution, and frequently fails to follow through, or else sees his efforts tossed out of court. —Dominic Patten, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2024

This reporting put Trojans for Representative Government in the national spotlight as Americans learned about how its dirty tricks had set the table for the Watergate scandal. —Jonathan Van Harmelen / Made By History, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024

While the food looked plenty unappetizing, Art’s dirty tricks elevate the stakes between himself and Tashi, proving that eating your vegetables doesn’t always have to be boring. —Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024

These politicos-in-training were learning just how miraculous, how malleable and how broken our 21st century system for policy-making is, courtesy of first-hand lessons in civic duty and dirty tricks. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024