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 their zeal to avoid resurrecting the sport’s reputation for chicanery, they tried to bury the incident.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

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

It was a hard day's work; but young Frank North was rewarded for his civility to the sergeant, who condescended to instruct his apt pupil in the tricks and chicaneries of their profession.

From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

All the little baffling, annoying delays, enmities, technicalities, chicaneries, personal antagonisms, evasions that had made up the Cora trial were in it.

From The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White