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Dirty pool   /dˈərti pul/   Listen
Dirty pool

noun
1.
Conduct that is unfair or unethical or unsportsmanlike.





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"Dirty pool" Quotes from Famous Books



... woman into the "dirty pool of politics," nor does she intend to enter that pool. Politics is not necessarily unclean; if it is unclean she is not chargeable with the great crime, for crime it is. Politics must be purified or we are lost. To govern this great nation wisely and well is not ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various
... captain sternly, while silence came down on the party, except for the sobs of Jenny Hewlett, who had gone into a dirty pool, and whom Rachel Mole and Betsy Seddon were brushing ...
— The Carbonels • Charlotte M. Yonge


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