chicanery
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Of greater concern to Dan Moody, the governor of Texas, was the town’s notorious administrative chicanery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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
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
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
They may elude her lofty purposes, falsify her trust, and for a time hoodwink her with male chicaneries; but they are always afraid of her, and in the end they do as she commands.
From The Dust Flower by Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren) Kline
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