chicanery

Example Sentences

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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

The investor who foresaw the collapse of Enron, he has one of the most sensitive noses for financial chicanery — and the ebbs and flows of investor credulence — in the business.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025

In his glory days, Carpenter elevated the ploys and chicanery of his trade to a devilish art.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead