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Chicanery

Chicanery meaning

Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge. | An individual act of trickery or deception. | The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.

Example sentences (20)

But Mr. Steinmann seemed to be in a league of his own when it came to chicanery and exploits of the time.

Cloud is finally minimally profitable albeit with some suspected chicanery and at 30+ billion of revenue still growing at 30+% so it could easily become impactful.

Instead, she can prove a lot of chicanery carried out in the service of a lawful aim.

Since much of the panel’s final report focused on Trump’s “legal chicanery and outright violence” specifically, the analysts wrote, much additional context was left on the cutting room floor.

That ended the last of Pantami’s chicanery and expensive joke for the telecommunications industry in Nigeria.

They had lives that they were in the middle of leading when they were so rudely interrupted by all this extraterrestrial chicanery.

This evasiveness, chicanery and demanding yet another sweetheart deal is going to backfire on the Biden/s.

Wealth and power are the main drivers of the media chicanery that has captured so many minds.

As a breach of the spirit of democracy, Gibran’s alleged minor violation of Jakarta’s regulations pales in significance next to the legal chicanery that allowed him to run in the February 14 election in the first place.

For years, various politicians and pundits have yelled themselves hoarse over the danger of normalizing Trump’s chicanery, casual mendacity, outrageous divisiveness and outright criminal behavior.

In 2020, just five days before the election, the national average indicated Joe Biden +7.4, a race he narrowly secured, setting aside election chicanery.

This, in turn, could open the doors to all sorts of potential chicanery regarding elector slates in GOP-led state legislatures and multiple questions that the U.S. Supreme Court would need to decide.

And combating misinformation — be it from online mischief-makers or falsehoods from the commander-in-chief — is a priority, particularly in educating Americans that any delays in declaring a victor stem from care, not chicanery.

If legislators are convinced that the presidency has been wrested out of Republican hands through chicanery or corruption, they could set the matter right by exercising their constitutional prerogative.

It’s a testament to just how special Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen is that it can still astonish after 7 issues of high octane chicanery.

Lib or Lab… there’s only a vowel’s difference in the abbreviation and not a scintilla of difference in the chicanery in public office.

Oblivion and chicanery - let's see if we can wring some wisdom out of all that with NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

Aggrieved parties from around the globe accuse him of chicanery and deceit.

He also was referring the report’s total debunking of allegations that employee fraud, theft and other criminal chicanery caused a budgetary loss of more than $1 million in FY 2018.

Many are going to question why this common practice matters at all as the financial chicanery of wealthy elites is nothing new.