DIRTY TRICK • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Dirty trick

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/dˈərti trɪk/ Listen

Dirty trick

noun

An unkind or aggressive trick.

See images of 'Dirty trick'

Etymology of 'Dirty trick'

Share |

"Dirty trick" Quotes from Famous Books

... mention it," he said slowly, "I did lose quite a lot of things, but dear old Bosambo wouldn't play a dirty trick on a pal. I ...

— Bones - Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country • Edgar Wallace

... He longed to revenge himself on every one for his own unseemliness. He suddenly recalled how he had once in the past been asked, "Why do you hate so and so, so much?" And he had answered them, with his shameless impudence, "I'll tell you. He has done me no harm. But I played him a dirty trick, and ever since I ...

— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... belong to any ship, but I made the passage across in a French smuggling lugger, the Lucille. I suppose I ought to feel indebted to them, for they brought me across without asking for any passage-money; but they have played me a dirty trick here, for they have handed me over to the authorities, as far as I can understand the matter, as a man-of-war sailor they have ...

— Through Russian Snows - A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow • G. A Henty

... be just like Nat to play some dirty trick," said the shipowner's son. "The question is, ...

— Dave Porter at Star Ranch - Or, The Cowboy's Secret • Edward Stratemeyer

... could always get round me." Then he turned on Iglesias with hysterical violence. "But what do you know? Why do you ask that? Are you among her patrons? I trusted you. I believed you were a gentleman in feeling—and it is a dirty trick to get me in here and fill me up with food and liquor, when you must have seen my nerves were all to pieces, and then spring this upon me. Oh! hell!" he cried, "is there no comfort anywhere? Is ...

— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet

More quotes...