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
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
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
Under these dispositions and prospects, it would grieve us extremely to see our debt pass into the hands of speculators, and be subjected ourselves to the chicaneries and vexations of private avarice.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
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
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