slipperiness

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Noun
  • Thus far, this prosecution, and a corresponding case against the gang in Sacramento, have been rife with evidence of treachery and violence inside and outside of prison.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 31 July 2025
  • The six-parter, to debut July 14, follows six groups of friends, and six historical cases of murder and treachery among them.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Those concerns were laid bare in the discovery process for the defamation case that Dominion Voting Systems took against Fox over false suggestions of fraud and other chicanery aired by guests on the network.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 19 July 2025
  • One is inclined to ask how much chicanery, deceit, deception and outright lying one must absorb before ending one’s allegiance to that party.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • That phonetic play alone already signals one of the project’s theoretical subterfuges: that of exploring the most advanced conditions of the subject’s annihilation as a foundational precondition for artistic authority.
    Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Artforum, 1 June 2025
  • An especially Jewish theme in the seventeenth century was not only the necessity but the dignity of subterfuge; to have lived in the shadows of another people’s empire had a nobility of its own, captured in this exquisite and ambivalent image.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • No, the movies in the novel are real, the suffering is real, the evasions and duplicities are real.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
  • That yearning involves no duplicity or threats to others.
    Jay Tcath, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • Michigan had dropped four of its last six games, but mustered enough trickery and belief to keep pace that day and finally, enough gall to try a 2-point conversion that could clinch the game.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In the span of a few quarters, impersonation has graduated from trickery to full-spectrum mimicry.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
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