How to Use dirty tricks in a Sentence

dirty tricks

plural noun
  • There have been no dirty tricks.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
  • Of course Nixon and his colleagues were immersed in dirty tricks.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Shandor doesn’t think Russian-style dirty tricks will work in Hungary.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Secrets triumphs two to one despite Bannon adopting her own dirty tricks.
    — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Some in the opposition are still expecting dirty tricks in the next days and weeks, before Orbán formally hands over power.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Allowing the dirty tricks to continue, at huge cost to taxpayers, for another three years is unacceptable.
    — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The film meticulously recreated their steps in linking the Watergate break-in and Republican ‘dirty tricks’ campaign to the highest echelons of power in America.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 May 2026
  • Texas politics, no stranger to dirty tricks, now heads into a hypercharged 2026 election season with few rules governing artificial intelligence, as cheap, realistic tools have made campaign fakery easier to create and harder to detect.
    — Philip Jankowski, Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The revelations included instances of the CIA’s violating its charter with assassinations, coups, dirty tricks, human drug experimentation, and domestic spying, especially on opponents of Nixon’s war in Southeast Asia.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 1 Apr. 2020

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