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Meaning of loaded dice | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. An advantage obtained by manipulating rules or insider influence.
    figuratively, plural, plural-only
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see loaded, dice.
    plural, plural-only

Examples

“Slave states have always won. They have played with loaded dice—loaded with Slavery.”
“In fact, the need for a cultural-relativistic point of view has become apparent because of the realization that there is no way to play this game of making judgments across cultures except with loaded dice.”
“The riverboat gambler’s most intriguing insight on the stock market is that all investors use loaded dice if they only knew it.”
“We here behold an impudent unlettered miscreant, wheedling himself into the acquaintance of the young and unexperienced, taking advantage of the hour of intoxication, to introduce loaded dice, and then enforcing his pretended claim by means of a loaded pistol.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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