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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dirty tricks

Transactional relationships abound, along with shifting alliances, dirty tricks and lusty proclivities against a backdrop of new money and old. —Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024

Whereas Parnas got swept up in conspiracy theories and political dirty tricks and disinformation, Biden wrote his memoirs about his battle with addiction, which led him to thank Parnas during their meeting for making amends as if working a 12-step program. —Philip Elliott, TIME, 7 Sep. 2024

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