Synonyms of dirty pool

dirty pool

noun

as in dirty tricks

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dirty pool

Throwing people off the ballot based on obscure technicalities that New York used to specialize in, like using the wrong color of paper, is dirty pool deployed by party machines to squash insurgents. —New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024

More dirty pool could be ahead. —Jackie Calmes, Time, 22 June 2021