I tell you, that was a shabby trick.
Of all the shabby tricks, to pretend to be a scientist in order to spy on someone!
Hang it, why shouldn't I play her this shabby trick?
Fate, he felt, had played a shabby trick upon an honest man.
"This is a shabby trick you play upon me, Palin," said the voice angrily from inside.
We're only the stepsons, of course, and you were always the favorite, but it does seem a shabby trick.
They must face the consequences not try the same shabby trick again.
This was a shabby trick, one which the merest child would be expected to see through, but in Germany it worked.
It was a shabby trick and too deep a revenge for anything Runcorn could have done to him.
My men would not stoop to such a shabby trick.