Dirty Tricks

Dirty tricks are unethical, duplicitous, slanderous or illegal tactics employed to destroy or diminish the effectiveness of political or business opponents. The term "dirty trick" can also be used to refer to an underhanded technique to get ahead of an opponent (such as sabotage or disregarding rules of engagement).

Read more about Dirty Tricks:  Electoral Dirty Tricks, Non-electoral Political Dirty Tricks

Famous quotes containing the words dirty and/or tricks:

    “But the dirty little coward that shot Mister Howard,
    He laid poor Jesse in his grave.”
    —Unknown. Jesse James (l. Chorus)

    “Which I wish to remark—
    And my language is plain—
    That for ways that are dark
    And for tricks that are vain,
    The heathen Chinee is peculiar:
    Which the same I would rise to explain.”
    —Bret Harte (1836–1902)