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

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