dirty game
Example Sentences
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Trailers refer to a "war against Meghan", with Prince Harry speaking of the "leaking and... planting of stories" as part of a "dirty game".
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2022
In news outside the markets, Prince Harry said Britain's royal household regularly leak stories about each other, calling it a "dirty game".
From Reuters • Dec. 6, 2022
It was often a dirty game: one in which accuracy and nuance could be sacrificed on the altar of “engagement.”
From Slate • Sep. 25, 2018
It was the best of a dirty game, evidence that college basketball has a soul that can be saved.
From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2018
An overloaded switchboard, a dirty game of Twister everywhere you turned.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
