Synonyms of dirty tricks

dirty tricks

plural noun

as in dirty pool

Related 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

Dissimilar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dirty tricks

Ted presents the judge with a different affidavit, this time the one the greasy journalist provided them, and informs the court of the DA’s dirty tricks to strong-arm those papers. —Ayan Artan, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025

The voting period for the Academy Awards will end on Feb. 18, and Gascón implied that the timing of the revelations was no accident, alluding to a dirty tricks campaign against her. —Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2025

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

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