chicanery
trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry: He resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the job.
a quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade.
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How to use chicanery in a sentence
Yet even non-competitive cyclists persist in resorting to all manner of chicanery in order to keep their bikes kickstand-free.
There are centuries of chicanery to draw upon, after all, and some tried-and-true techniques that simply need to be upgraded for the modern era.
A conspiracy website will pay you $10,000 to bring it back to reality | Philip Bump | July 30, 2021 | Washington PostIn the process, it turns a quirky true-life tale of corporate chicanery into an eye-opening examination of the way our beliefs about gender shape the public narrative.
‘The Lady and the Dale’ explores transphobia in 1970s America | John Paul King | February 10, 2021 | Washington BladeIn 2018, digital ad buyers lost $19 billion in fraud from bot traffic and other chicanery.
The country has a long history of such chicanery—including an incident in 2007 that predates even Egypt’s seminal service disruption.
Myanmar: How repressive regimes quash dissent with Internet shutdowns | Robert Hackett | February 2, 2021 | Fortune
An indictment of the sort of financial chicanery that eventually fueled the crash of 2008.
Finally! ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Is Hollywood’s First 1990s Period Piece | Andrew Romano | December 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFans of today adore the cheaters of the past, precisely because of their chicanery.
Alex Rodriguez Suspension Is a Sad Moment for Baseball | Michael Brendan Dougherty | August 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the truth is that even if there's a little chicanery going on, the current compensation scheme is working brilliantly.
In 1500 the palace was the shrine of an artistic nobility; to-day it is a temple of chicanery.
Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car | Francis MiltounThe time will come, however, when old Virginia will stand trifling and chicanery no longer.
A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention | Lucius Eugene ChittendenThis substitution of chicanery in place of devastation takes place only in an uncertain degree.
The Theory of the Leisure Class | Thorstein VeblenTo be defeated by rascality, by a clever turn of chicanery, never disturbed him—that was legitimate.
Max Fargus | Owen JohnsonA goodly portion of my life has been spent in battling with superstition, credulity and chicanery in every form.
Sharps and Flats | John Nevil Maskelyne
British Dictionary definitions for chicanery
/ (ʃɪˈkeɪnərɪ) /
verbal deception or trickery, esp in legal quibbling; dishonest or sharp practice
a trick, deception, or quibble
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