How to Use chicanery in a Sentence

chicanery

noun

• He wasn't above using chicanery to win votes.
• All of that chicanery earned him the ire of Flores and some other Mets.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 23 June 2017
• And that’s with Kelly Olynyk and his flowing locks yet to join the chicanery.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2020
• Jeff German weathered all of it — the new owners, the new faces, the same old chicanery.
  — Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2022
• The claim of a plot to steal the election makes sense to people who see Trump as a warrior against deep-state chicanery.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2021
• There's been adequate evidence for the press to call out this chicanery all along.
  — Talmon Joseph Smith, GQ, 30 Sep. 2017
• This rule prevents chicanery involving the stymie rule.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
• A number of websites have sprung up in response to the growing digital chicanery.
  — Y. Peter Kang, WIRED, 10 July 2000
• McAfee acknowledged post-match that a little chicanery works, as long as the ref doesn't see it.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 31 July 2022
• The potential for chicanery hasn’t disappeared by any stretch.
  — Paul Waldman, The Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2019
• Chess has long been a game rife with allegations of chicanery and skullduggery.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
• And with the coronavirus's chicanery, anything could still happen between now and then....
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2021
• There were fears of chicanery, causing both companies’ share prices to waver.
  — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
• Generally speaking, the average sports fan winked and laughed at the tales of college chicanery.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• Still, Mitchell says using the new lines could open the city up to legal chicanery that would only further complicate the process.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2023
• Or read the newspaper, because lately, they are filled with tales of chicanery from those same hospitals.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2019
• Fortunately, society is waking up to the chicanery of the rankings scam.
  — Michael Thaddeus, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
• The post covers a lot of ground, plus several specific claims of corporate chicanery.
  — Vulture, 22 Mar. 2023
• Chastain shows you that Tammy Faye was a dupe, in too deep not to be part of the chicanery, but also a kind of innocent.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Sep. 2021
• And there are some genuinely affecting, powerful moments once all the chicanery is set aside.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
• Rumours of violent chicanery have long haunted the first family.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2020
• That’s why almost no one has done time for the financial chicanery that produced the Great Recession.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• But this is a far cry from the naked chicanery employed by other billionaires with self-serving motivations.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• None of this chicanery would have been egregious enough to catch the Supreme Court’s attention even if last week’s ruling went the other way.
  — Steve Mulroy, The New Republic, 8 July 2019
• Some cinematic chicanery did take place, just not nearly as much as some have said, and Cooper managed to learn to throw with his left.
  — Douglass K. Daniel, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2017
• Also, Damien Wayne is there too, but his allegiances are suspect thanks to a bit of mind control chicanery.
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• While some voters see victory and relief, others insist the picture is one of corruption and chicanery.
  — John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2020
• Michigan State football special teams coach Ross Els’ call for some chicanery would work.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2021
• This chicanery put people with less flexible work schedules at a great disadvantage.
  — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• That kind of chicanery is not unusual in cryptocurrency trading, a sphere where fake identities and sock puppets abound.
  — Gian M. Volpicelli, Wired, 15 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Apr 2024