Explore Chicanery through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like trickery or chicane. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Chicanery in a sentence
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.
Synonyms of Chicanery
Using Chicanery
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: trickery, chicane, guile, wile.
- In the example corpus, chicanery often appears in combinations such as: chicanery and, of chicanery, electoral chicanery.
Context around Chicanery
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chicanery
- In this selection, "chicanery" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, legal, suspected, extraterrestrial, carried, casual and regarding stand out and add context to how "chicanery" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aside election chicanery and came to chicanery and exploits. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chicanery" sits close to words such as actinium, adherent and adipose, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chicanery
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Aggrieved parties from around the globe accuse him of chicanery and deceit. (12 words)
Instead, she can prove a lot of chicanery carried out in the service of a lawful aim. (17 words)
That ended the last of Pantami’s chicanery and expensive joke for the telecommunications industry in Nigeria. (17 words)
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. (39 words)
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. (35 words)
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. (34 words)
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.
Common combinations with chicanery
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- chicanery and 9×
- of chicanery 3×
- electoral chicanery 3×
- legal chicanery 2×
- chicanery that 2×
- through chicanery 2×
- and chicanery 2×
- chicanery of 2×