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The business reforms of the ’30s have proven unequal to chicaneries of later ages, and periodically must be updated.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2011

Again & again she was caught red-handed in chicaneries that would have made a carnival rifter blush.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the home, with its purities, its sanctities, its retiracies, its reticences, is far removed from the noise and wranglings of popular assemblies, the loud ambitions and selfish chicaneries of political arenas.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

All the little baffling, annoying delays, enmities, technicalities, chicaneries, personal antagonisms, evasions that had made up the Cora trial were in it.

From The Gray Dawn by White, Stewart Edward

He had acquired, moreover, a complete knowledge of, and great dexterity in, the practice of the chicaneries of law, or rather, perhaps, in the art of violating or evading it.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various