Sentence examples for a rotten trick from inspiring English sources

But usually it's a rotten trick on the one desiring to live forever, along the lines of those mishaps that occur with the Genie's three wishes, or the unintended consequences of the Butterfly Effect or King Midas's curse.

He is a man of great talent but he is throwing it away on drink and worry over his misfortunes … His name, I forgot to say, is Scott Fitzgerald, and a New York paper has just published a miserable interview with him – it was a lousy trick, a rotten … piece of journalism, going to see a man in that condition, gaining his confidence, and then betraying him.

It has worked for thousands before -- why not you? 1) Citing evidence selectively is an easy, old, and rotten trick.

"He had a rotten night, and the memory of his last game here [a hat-trick in a 3-2 win over Rennes] seemed a long way away," said Nord Éclair.

A rotten crowd!

"I had a rotten, rotten session.

Daddock: rotten wood, a rotten log.

A rotten time, overall?

"A rotten world".

It's a rotten place.

It's a rotten combination.