Sentence examples for sordid scheme from inspiring English sources

Unable to lie, she spilled the beans, busting the whole sordid scheme wide open.

To be blunt: homophobia is at the root of the Vatican's sordid scheme.

If this sordid scheme arose when Hastert were in office, not lobbying away, I might feel differently.

[n.20] Indeed, the court found Chambers' actions were "part of [a] sordid scheme of deliberate misuse of the judicial process" designed "to defeat NASCO's claim by harassment, repeated and endless delay, mountainous expense and waste of financial resources". 124 F. R. D., at 128.

But after the indictments were announced, he took to Twitter to once again deny his involvement, casting himself as both the victim and the hero of the whole sordid scheme.

If they're wise, they will realize there are many ways to make money in the sport that are aboveboard and far from the sordid schemes of racing horses to death at the lowest rungs of the sport.

After a couple of thugs rough the Dude up — and pee on his prized rug — he shows up at the tycoon's ornate offices, and is quickly ensnared in the Big Lebowski's sordid schemes.

After a couple of thugs rough the Dude up—and pee on his prized rug he shows up at the tycoon's ornate offices, and is quickly ensnared in the Big Lebowski's sordid schemes.

I am reminded of a famous insider trading case in the 1980s when a young rising Wall Street Journal reporter named Foster Winans became ensnared in a sordid insider trading scheme that in the end afforded him a mere $31,000 in financial gain.

Rene Russo and Tim Allen, below, star in the film "Big Trouble," Barry Sonnenfeld's comedy of carnage, which portrays an array of sordid types in South Florida whose schemes ultimately involve a stolen nuclear device on a hijacked airplane.

In between, many sordid secrets are revealed by a cast of characters that includes the General's scheming concubine, Mah Li (Sekiya Billman), and his ancient adviser, Dr. Wu Marcy McGuigann), plus an opium-smuggling sailor (the invaluable Mr. Gerroll again), who holds the key to Lady Sylvia's past.