chicanery

Wall Street was a hive of chicanery and imprudence; he created the Securities and Exchange Commission.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Even “all deeply buried nuclear facilities” would leave room for chicanery, as the facility beneath Pickaxe Mountain could be excluded as a “construction site.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 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

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

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

And the home, with its purities, its sanctities, its retiracies, its reticences, is far removed from the noise and wranglings of popular assemblies, the loud ambitions and selfish chicaneries of political arenas.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy 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