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

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

As with any election, however, there are dirty tricks afoot. —Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024

False information and other dirty tricks aimed at discouraging people from going to the polls is nothing new. —Dan De Luce, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024

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