stacked deck
Example Sentences
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While there’s no doubt that both made serious mistakes, “Richard Jewell” seems to be playing with a rather stacked deck.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2019
However, the professor’s central assertion remains strong: that the solidarity of kinship is a stacked deck.
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2018
In scores of speeches and projects, she turned again and again to the stacked deck.
From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2016
The movie’s evident sympathy for them at times shades toward sentimentality, and the story that emerges from their hustling and scoring is dealt from a stacked deck.
From New York Times • May 14, 2015
In his not terribly clean uniform, wearing knee-high Cretan boots, Captain Kontoulis scrutinized running lights, stacked deck chairs, lifeboats.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
