as in chicanery
the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end
most get-rich-quick schemes involve more than a smidgen of chicane
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as in to cheat
to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal
a lawyer who is so notorious for chicaning that the guilty invariably seek his services
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Recent Examples of chicane
Rob Reed, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verstappen and Norris raced each other very hard into the first chicane; the Red Bull driver on the outside was forced to cut the chicane and leave the track to remain ahead of Norris and was ordered by his team to give the place back, before passing Norris with an effective move on the next lap.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2025
Another horizontal measure would be a chicane, or concrete curbs jutting out like triangles into the road, like those near the Kroger in East Nashville.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
But, way in the back of the field, Jake Hughes didn’t make it through the perilous Turn 10 and 11 chicane.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2025
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Not to mention Piastri’s overtake on Norris last year at Monza into the second chicane.
—Rob Reed, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verstappen and Norris raced each other very hard into the first chicane; the Red Bull driver on the outside was forced to cut the chicane and leave the track to remain ahead of Norris and was ordered by his team to give the place back, before passing Norris with an effective move on the next lap.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2025
Another horizontal measure would be a chicane, or concrete curbs jutting out like triangles into the road, like those near the Kroger in East Nashville.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
But, way in the back of the field, Jake Hughes didn’t make it through the perilous Turn 10 and 11 chicane.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chicane
Noun
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Just typical power-grabbing Idaho lawmaker chicanery, right?—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
16 Apr. 2026
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In light of the chicanery that happens in the episode, the phrase also suggests a bit of victim-blaming for the harvesting of personal data.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
12 Apr. 2026
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Notice something small, then compliment it This one is almost cheating.—
Henna Pryor,
CNBC,
20 Apr. 2026
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Naumann also did Loughlin’s hair for this March outing, which marked the mother and daughters’ first red-carpet appearance together since the 2019 college admissions cheating scandal.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
18 Apr. 2026
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To Elliott, these seemingly minuscule mistakes that were ultimately corrected encapsulate Neon’s deception.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Apr. 2026
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Test your hand-eye coördination and deception skills by maneuvering open windows on your desktop background, answering e-mails and texts and looking at Instagram, all while appearing to be engaged.—
Charles Yu,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Inflamed by Ratansen’s adviser’s account of Padmavati’s beauty, Alauddin Khalji storms the fortress by treachery rather than valor.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
9 Apr. 2026
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But Bateman's treachery also had a distinctly silly side.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Apr. 2026
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Now, there is a little bit of trickery being employed here.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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The sets and cinematic trickery of the scenes between regular-size humans and their 6-in.—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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In the Television Academy's Miami Vice oral history, Johnson revealed the show’s cutting-edge content was made possible by simple subterfuge.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Apr. 2026
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The trio went to great lengths to perpetrate the subterfuge, the indictment claims, including using hair dryers to remove packaging labels that were then reaffixed to thousands of fake replica servers.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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Other throwaways made it on the list thanks to Bieber’s gamesmanship or Billboard’s methodological quirks.—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2026
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Maybe Brown kept the pick-and-rolls, the dribble hand-offs, the give-and-go actions tucked as a form of gamesmanship so as to not tip his hand entering the playoffs.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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One result of the existing system is that vote tabulations in California go on for weeks, something that frustrates the public and the media, and, in the current atmosphere, helps fuel suspicion of electoral skullduggery.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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The selection was announced by SMS to Iranians, among whom Mojtaba Khamenei has long had a reputation for skullduggery and power plays.—
Kay Armin Serjoie,
Time,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Chicane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chicane. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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