chicanery

Of greater concern to Dan Moody, the governor of Texas, was the town’s notorious administrative chicanery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Did he feel he needed to shake up his players by warning them of supposed chicanery?

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

By highlighting some of this procedural chicanery, Kagan’s dissent in Mirabelli laid bare, in remarkably blunt fashion, the tip of a dreadful iceberg.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026

You can go on with your life free of other people’s chicanery and hopefully enjoy the last days of 2025 without being caught up in a “L’Affaire du Vin Manquant.”

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025

The amount of chicanery it would take to slip prom past her mother ... it boggled the mind.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

The business reforms of the ’30s have proven unequal to chicaneries of later ages, and periodically must be updated.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2011

Again & again she was caught red-handed in chicaneries that would have made a carnival rifter blush.

From Time Magazine Archive

They may elude her lofty purposes, falsify her trust, and for a time hoodwink her with male chicaneries; but they are always afraid of her, and in the end they do as she commands.

From The Dust Flower by Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren) Kline

Under these dispositions and prospects, it would grieve us extremely to see our debt pass into the hands of speculators, and be subjected ourselves to the chicaneries and vexations of private avarice.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

He would refuse Mr. Gresham's offer,—not because he hoped that he might live in idleness on the wealth of the woman he loved,—but because the chicaneries and intrigues of office had become distasteful to him.

From Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope