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
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
In their zeal to avoid resurrecting the sport’s reputation for chicanery, they tried to bury the incident.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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
But even the most subtly-trained European intellects are curiously backward in such elementary chicaneries!
From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey
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
It was a hard day's work; but young Frank North was rewarded for his civility to the sergeant, who condescended to instruct his apt pupil in the tricks and chicaneries of their profession.
From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson
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