Sentence examples for a sharp practice from inspiring English sources
"a sharp practice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used to describe a tactic that is considered to be deceptive or underhanded. For example, "The company's decision to use false advertising was a sharp practice."
This is an admission that this part of the reason for present woes is a sharp practice.
As he points out, the verb nutmegged is listed by the Oxford English Dictionary as "arising in the 1870s which in Victorian slang came to mean 'to be tricked or deceived, especially in a manner which makes the victim look foolish'". The word arose because of a sharp practice used in nutmeg exports between America and England.
Aguero was judged by many to have indulged in a little sharp practice when he simply stopped running.
In fact, he lasted a short spell in Michael Howard's shadow cabinet before being dropped over a bit of sharp practice.
Are not people rightly asking, "Is this man simply not cut out for the job"?' Cameron showed the dexterity which is delighting Tories when he was able to cope with a bit of sharp practice by Labour.
England will not delude themselves that this match, and with it the series, was lost because of a single piece of sharp practice by Sachithra Senanayake – or even, if they take a more self-critical approach, one moment of doziness from Jos Buttler and a separate breakdown in communication between the wicketkeeper and Chris Jordan.
Under a Labour government this sharp practice would end".
Would a private piece of sharp practice by George Osborne honestly be irrelevant to his work as chancellor?
A US civil rights group opposed to HSBC's planned £9bn takeover of American finance firm Household International has written to independent directors of the UK-listed bank asking them to investigate a range of alleged sharp practice at Household.
However, in this peaceful yet poor east African nation, poster seller Yanga Idrissa says that if he wants to get his Kikwete posters on official walls, a certain degree of sharp practice is required.
Sir John Thomas, the president of the Queen's Bench Division, said Nick Freeman had failed to put "all his cards on the table" in a speeding case and that there had been sharp practice of a kind the High Court "wants to see stamped out".
