chicanery

How To Use chicanery In A Sentence

• Unfortunately, confusion about the Earned Income Tax Credit has created opportunities for chicanery.
• He, on the other hand, loves the intrigue, the subtle manipulation, the backstairs chicanery, and there's no one better to convey it.
• Mountbatten, Slim and Baldwin are not the sort of men to put their names to anything which in the slightest degree smacks of chicanery. TANK OF SERPENTS
• This sort of constitutional chicanery is really not how we ought to conduct our Parliamentary affairs and I am quite sure that we need no lessons in democracy and the parliamentary process from a country like Germany whose democracy is but sixty years old. The Fixed-Term Panacea
• A CBS movie revisits Enron, with all its chicanery, flimflam, excess, hanky-panky, and its descent into the dark, if darkly comic, side of capitalism.
• They are matter-of-factly attempting to snatch the youngsters from us by chicanery.
• The human mind cannot tolerate the spectre of waste presented by the possibility of chicanery without detection.
• Harkening back to the grand old days of Sino-Soviet diplomatic chicanery, Moscow and Beijing yesterday jointly vetoed a watered-down United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Syria for its escalating brutality against democracy protestors. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Syria's Double Diplomatic Muscle
• I will therefore engineer, via chicanery, a meeting between Andy and Marks. MUSIC FOR BOYS
• Apparently he considered adultery a lesser crime than financial chicanery, and by pleading the one, he avoided the other.