chicanery

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

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

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

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

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

She came into conflict with the police, who considered her activity pernicious and accused her of socialistic tendencies, into which she was forced in 1885 by the chicaneries of the police.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld

But even the most subtly-trained European intellects are curiously backward in such elementary chicaneries!

From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey