chicanery
Example Sentences
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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
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
That said, there are plenty of reasons — none involving any kind of partisan chicanery — that explain why California elections seems to drag on and vote totals shift as ballots are steadily counted.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
The amount of chicanery it would take to slip prom past her mother ... it boggled the mind.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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