chicanery

Example Sentences

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“The Baron of Wall Street” proclaims that Dillon—not alone in his era—enriched himself through “chicanery, subterfuge, and graft.”

From The Wall Street Journal

And a roster of identity-based crimes — from election chicanery to child trafficking — are allowed to proliferate.

From New York Times

I think that with Nixon what you see is that he saw the kind of Kennedy chicanery as baked in.

From Salon

In 1972, the people, fed up with legislative chicanery, organized and passed an initiative to lift the curtain surrounding what their representatives were doing in secret.

From Seattle Times

It is hardly unusual for candidates to try to pull off ballot title chicanery.

From Los Angeles Times