dirty tricks vs doings

dirty tricks and doings both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dirty tricks	Yes	No	No	No
doings	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, doings is a hypernym of dirty tricks; that is, doings is a word with a broader meaning than dirty tricks:

dirty tricks: underhand commercial or political behavior designed to discredit an opponent
doings: manner of acting or controlling yourself

Other hypernyms of dirty tricks include behavior, behaviour, conduct.

dirty tricks (noun)	doings (noun)
underhand commercial or political behavior designed to discredit an opponent	manner of acting or controlling yourself