chicanery

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

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

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

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

Then, there was the commanding mystery of Bellingham, emerging in her mind now from the chicaneries of the past ten days; rising, indeed, to his own valuation—that of a New Voice.

From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort

George Friedrich got at length most of his Territories into hand: Anspach and Baireuth unimpaired, Jagerndorf too, except that Ratibor and Oppeln were much eaten into by the Imperial chicaneries in that quarter.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle