chicanery

How To Use chicanery In A Sentence

• What deals, games and other chicanery is going on in this leak investigation? Think Progress » Judith Miller discovered new notes
• The investigation revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels.
• After the word chicanery there was a growing noise, half of murmurs and half of hisses, while four persons started up at once -- Mr. Hawley, Middlemarch
• Indulge at length your preoccupation with lying, bullying, malice, chicanery, duplicity and revenge.
• Captain Bermudez, that past master of astrogational chicanery, gave a derisive chuckle. Perseus Spur
• This fiscal chicanery is part of a larger pattern.
• In Direct Line's latest he's convinced there must be a catch to salesman Chris Addison's straightforward pitch, and so congratulates him for non-existent chicanery. The Hard Sell: Direct Line
• In reality, it is the outcome of the growing national opposition faced by the occupying forces, which no amount of chicanery will forestall.
• The remark was not brought on by some thieving or chicanery on my part, but rather by a political speech I'd made which this person didn't like.
• If this report is true, it is an insult to the intelligence of Irish farmers and smacks of the worst kind of political and bureaucratic chicanery.