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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a bad trick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a deceptive or unkind action that is considered unfair or unpleasant.
Example: "Pulling that prank on her was really a bad trick; it hurt her feelings."
Alternatives: "a cruel joke" or "a mean stunt".
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"It was as though a bad trick had been played on them all".
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"Mallory's early life," says this book, of the time before she turned up abandoned in Grand Central Terminal, "was one long bad trick on a little kid".
It looked like a bad confidence trick.
"This is not just a bad party trick," he said.
Oh yeah, and thanks to their accidental tanking last season, they managed to draft Duke's Jabari Parker with the second pick in the draft, expect him to pick up some rookie-of-the-year votes with the old "getting a lot of points on a bad team" trick.
This is "a bad negotiating trick".
It's doing the bad trick.
"They learned all the bad tricks here," Carlos Salas, a food stand vendor who himself admits to paying off municipal inspectors, said of the executives of Wal-Mart.
"When you sing, there are many bad tricks you can fall into.
Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist, writes: 'When emotion is entirely left out of the reasoning picture... reason turns out to be even more flawed than when emotion plays bad tricks on our decisions' [ 16].
When many people stand up for you and defend you, bullies are afraid to play bad tricks on you.
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