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:

    “A dirty house in a gutted world,
    A tatter of shadows peaked to white,
    Smeared with the gold of the opulent sun.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Let the new faces play what tricks they will
    In the old rooms; night can outbalance day,
    Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,
    The living seem more shadowy than they.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)