Sentence example with the word 'chicanery'

chicanery

art, caviling, curve, dodge, fetch, hedging, moral turpitude, quibbling, scurvy trick, strategy, vileness

Definition n. the use of tricks to deceive someone

Last update: July 26, 2015


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After eight years of financial chicanery, he concludes, the Chancellor has produced an Enron for Africa.   [noun]

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Knowing British chicanery, Mr Post was right not to be surprised.   [noun]

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He fell prey to political chicanery.   [noun]

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Yet even a flock of sheep would resist the chicanery of the State, if it were not for the corruptive, tyrannical, and oppressive methods it employs to serve its purposes.   [noun]

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And I suppose all that chicanery afterward was necessary, too.   [Please select]

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A wearisome period of endless dispute, chicanery, and wrangling followed this decision.   [Please select]

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As Dennis put it, there was "any amount of chicanery about the whole affair."   [Please select]

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The attempt, at present, would lead to partiality, chicanery, and every kind of fraud.   [Please select]

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I dismiss the whole thing as a rather less than subtle bit of market-manipulation chicanery.   [Please select]

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In his dealings with other nations his diplomacy included all the arts of chicanery and deceit.   [Please select]

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No persuasion or bribery or confounded chicanery could induce YOU to deceive me on this point.   [Please select]

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