chicanery

“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

That said, there are plenty of reasons — none involving any kind of partisan chicanery — that explain why California elections seems to drag on and vote totals shift as ballots are steadily counted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

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

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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

She came well prepared for a bout, and blushed not at the subterfuges and mean, paltry artifices, aye, a full battery of chicaneries that awaited her use, as she crossed the maid's chamber threshold.

From Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne

He had acquired, moreover, a complete knowledge of, and great dexterity in, the practice of the chicaneries of law, or rather, perhaps, in the art of violating or evading it.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various

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