chicanery

Yet even non-competitive cyclists persist in resorting to all manner of chicanery in order to keep their bikes kickstand-free.
Your Bike Might Need a Kickstand If…|wtaylor|November 16, 2021|Outside Online
There are centuries of chicanery to draw upon, after all, and some tried-and-true techniques that simply need to be upgraded for the modern era.
A conspiracy website will pay you $10,000 to bring it back to reality|Philip Bump|July 30, 2021|Washington Post
In the process, it turns a quirky true-life tale of corporate chicanery into an eye-opening examination of the way our beliefs about gender shape the public narrative.
‘The Lady and the Dale’ explores transphobia in 1970s America|John Paul King|February 10, 2021|Washington Blade
In 2018, digital ad buyers lost $19 billion in fraud from bot traffic and other chicanery.
The Brave New World of Advertising|Daniel Malloy|February 7, 2021|Ozy

The country has a long history of such chicanery—including an incident in 2007 that predates even Egypt’s seminal service disruption.
Myanmar: How repressive regimes quash dissent with Internet shutdowns|Robert Hackett|February 2, 2021|Fortune
An indictment of the sort of financial chicanery that eventually fueled the crash of 2008.
Finally! ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Is Hollywood’s First 1990s Period Piece|Andrew Romano|December 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Fans of today adore the cheaters of the past, precisely because of their chicanery.
Alex Rodriguez Suspension Is a Sad Moment for Baseball|Michael Brendan Dougherty|August 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And the truth is that even if there's a little chicanery going on, the current compensation scheme is working brilliantly.
The Economics of Puppy Management|Megan McArdle|February 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In 1500 the palace was the shrine of an artistic nobility; to-day it is a temple of chicanery.
Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car|Francis Miltoun
The time will come, however, when old Virginia will stand trifling and chicanery no longer.
A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention|Lucius Eugene Chittenden
This substitution of chicanery in place of devastation takes place only in an uncertain degree.
The Theory of the Leisure Class|Thorstein Veblen
To be defeated by rascality, by a clever turn of chicanery, never disturbed him—that was legitimate.
Max Fargus|Owen Johnson
A goodly portion of my life has been spent in battling with superstition, credulity and chicanery in every form.
Sharps and Flats|John Nevil Maskelyne

British Dictionary definitions for chicanery

chicanery

/ (ʃɪˈkeɪnərɪ) /

noun plural -eries

verbal deception or trickery, esp in legal quibbling; dishonest or sharp practice

a trick, deception, or quibble

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