chicanery
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“This sort of chicanery has been going on since at least the ’90s,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Did he feel he needed to shake up his players by warning them of supposed chicanery?
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 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
Either way, this whole situation shines a light on the murky argument over what to do with this brand of chicanery in the first place.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2024
Midnight meetings, riverbank chicanery, intrigue at the crossroads.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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
George Friedrich got at length most of his Territories into hand: Anspach and Baireuth unimpaired, Jagerndorf too, except that Ratibor and Oppeln were much eaten into by the Imperial chicaneries in that quarter.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
Transactions imbued with a depravity that made me shudder, were narrated with a chuckle; chicaneries of a depth and maliciousness positively devilish, were touched with a smirk.
From Trifles for the Christmas Holidays by H. S. Armstrong
He knew Renardet was not a Republican, and he knew all the tricks and chicaneries employed at elections.
From The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
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