chicanery

Example Sentences

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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

Sometimes a little subterfuge and chicanery is in order and the quickest way to achieve one’s goal.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland