sandbagging (Meaning)
sandbagging
to bank, stop up, or weight with sandbags, to hit or stun with or as if with a sandbag, a bag filled with sand and used in fortifications, as ballast, or as a weapon, to treat unfairly or harshly, to conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent especially in order to gain an advantage over, a bag filled with sand, to coerce by crude means, to hide the truth about oneself so as to gain an advantage over another
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sandbagging Sentence Examples
- The construction workers sandbagged the foundation to prevent flooding during the storm.
- Emma sandbagged her opponent in the tennis match, pretending to be less skilled than she actually was.
- The politician was accused of sandbagging by not revealing his true intentions during the election campaign.
- The students sandbagged the final exam by studying only the expected questions.
- The hiker sandbagged the mountain, underestimating the difficulty of the ascent.
- The boxer sandbagged his opponent with a series of powerful punches.
- The doctor sandbagged the patient's condition, downplaying the severity of the illness.
- The company sandbagged its financial results, concealing losses to inflate its stock price.
- The lawyer sandbagged the witness, deliberately eliciting misleading testimony to weaken the opposing case.
- The athlete sandbagged the qualifying event, intentionally performing poorly to avoid competing in the finals.
FAQs About the word sandbagging
to bank, stop up, or weight with sandbags, to hit or stun with or as if with a sandbag, a bag filled with sand and used in fortifications, as ballast, or as a w
coercing, obligating, compelling, driving, obliging,forcing, pressuring, blackjacking, making, browbeating
letting,permitting, moving, allowing, prevailing (on or upon), satisfying, winning (over), inducing, talking (into),arguing
The construction workers sandbagged the foundation to prevent flooding during the storm.
Emma sandbagged her opponent in the tennis match, pretending to be less skilled than she actually was.
The politician was accused of sandbagging by not revealing his true intentions during the election campaign.
The students sandbagged the final exam by studying only the expected questions.
