How To Use Chicanery In A Sentence
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Unfortunately, confusion about the Earned Income Tax Credit has created opportunities for chicanery.
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He, on the other hand, loves the intrigue, the subtle manipulation, the backstairs chicanery, and there's no one better to convey it.
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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
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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
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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.
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They are matter-of-factly attempting to snatch the youngsters from us by chicanery.
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The human mind cannot tolerate the spectre of waste presented by the possibility of chicanery without detection.
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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
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I will therefore engineer, via chicanery, a meeting between Andy and Marks.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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Apparently he considered adultery a lesser crime than financial chicanery, and by pleading the one, he avoided the other.
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The e-Vote system must cope with a bewildering array of potential electoral chicanery: impostors, double voters, and enforcers.
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Again, such chicanery is only possible in the human world.
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What do the Austrians have to say about all this chicanery?
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His sky-rocket ascent was almost certainly powered by bribery, manipulation, and other chicanery.
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It's time for a new politics of genuine social justice for all the peoples of the world; not the chicanery, deceit and lies to which we've been treated to in the last weeks and months.
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I wonder if he will allow this bit of chicanery to stand.
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The emerging malpractices and general chicanery of these cash-driven outfits defy belief.
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As if that chicanery is not horrible enough, now those bringing the truth to the surface, as Carson Fire puts it, are being made to look like “meanies”.
Correcting the facts and missing the truth « BuzzMachine
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Hawkers of such chicanery have made claims that youth and restored body functions could be brought about through nerve tonics and elixirs of life.
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He could not forgive himself, though, for that last bit of disgraceful chicanery.
THE LONGEST WAY HOME
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And one of the main reasons for boardroom chicanery is that far too much of the ‘money out’ goes to governments, which may pay lip service to reducing taxes but, like the secular sermonisers of the left, talk a much better game than they play.
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But all these examples are nothing more than political chicanery.
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This kind of chicanery is what gets you thrown in prison if a private business does it.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » This Argument Works for a Libertarian…
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But you guys are the second commencing class since the last election, and a mighty change has been made, a page of sheer unadulterated chicanery, mass murder and horror written in embarrassingly awful subliterate prose has been turned, and on the very next page, to what in my opinion should be our continuing surprise, relief, ecstatic joy, it turns out that the story of a functioning, participatory pluralist secular democracy is still being written.
Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: 'Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration'
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Fortunately, Judge Jones sounds reasonable and sensible, and not a little put out by the obvious chicanery of the drug addict and his flunky laundering donations through a church.
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The investigation revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels.
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Set aside the usual circus ring tricks of political chicanery.
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A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.
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I'm too an at using chicanery to accomplish my mission.
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So there you have it, it's another case of British achievement being brought down by foreign chicanery.
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But the notion that Wall Street somehow has a monopoly on "disastrous chicanery" is laughable, as big corporate scandals from a few years ago -- Tyco, Adelphia, Enron, WorldCom -- make clear.
Yvette Kantrow: Making it
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The investigation revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels.
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After the word chicanery there was a growing noise, half of murmurs and half of hisses, while four persons started up at once -- Mr. Hawley,
Middlemarch
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Indulge at length your preoccupation with lying, bullying, malice, chicanery, duplicity and revenge.
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Captain Bermudez, that past master of astrogational chicanery, gave a derisive chuckle.
Perseus Spur
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This fiscal chicanery is part of a larger pattern.
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In Direct Line's latest he's convinced there must be a catch to salesman Chris Addison's straightforward pitch, and so congratulates him for non-existent chicanery.
The Hard Sell: Direct Line
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In reality, it is the outcome of the growing national opposition faced by the occupying forces, which no amount of chicanery will forestall.
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The remark was not brought on by some thieving or chicanery on my part, but rather by a political speech I'd made which this person didn't like.
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If this report is true, it is an insult to the intelligence of Irish farmers and smacks of the worst kind of political and bureaucratic chicanery.
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Set aside the usual circus ring tricks of political chicanery.
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The two schemers fall for each other but there's a lot of revenge-fuelled chicanery before love wins through.
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Computer experts at respected universities have sounded the alarm over the potential for high-tech chicanery.
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Fortunately, Judge Jones sounds reasonable and sensible, and not a little put out by the obvious chicanery of the drug addict and his flunky laundering donations through a church.
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To be sure, force may no longer take the form of plunder and extortion, and fraud may no longer appear as deliberate imposture and chicanery.
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What deals, games and other chicanery is going on in this leak investigation?
Think Progress » Judith Miller discovered new notes
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The social stigma of losing necessitated strategy, even chicanery.
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To play fast and loose now means to behave in a deceitful or irresponsible manner. shell game This old gambling game (earlier known as thimblerig), in which the operator openly places a pea under one of three walnut shells, then rapidly shifts the shells around and challenges a sucker to bet on the location of the pea, has given its name to any kind of chicanery or subterfuge.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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Blagojevich is regularly described as the apotheosis of the shady Illinois politician -- a genus that rivals the Louisiana and Jersey City variety for chicanery.
Allison Silver: A Lesser Class of Rogue
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The run for the presidency is no joke, rife with political chicanery, espionage and blackmail.
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A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.
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Pettifoggery has come to mean legal chicanery, and last week a Senate subcommittee consultant used the word to describe a weakness of U.S. negotiators in dealing with Communist powers.
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That would get back at them for their currency chicanery which cost us so dear.
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After the word chicanery there was a growing noise, half of murmurs and half of hisses, while four persons started up at once -- Mr. Hawley, Mr. Toller, Mr. Chichely, and Mr. Hackbutt; but Mr. Hawley's outburst was instantaneous, and left the others behind in silence.
Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
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If this were to actually come to pass, it could open the door to all sorts of chicanery.
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All I notice is that these experts in chicanery are vying for jobs at BP.
"My sins my own. They belong to me, me."
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Lies, fraud, chicanery and self indulgence are endemic in society today - or am I being presumptuous?
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The managers hope that, through chicanery and fraud, they could save the dollar from sudden death.
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In the last few months, we've found that chicanery sometimes extends to companies' nutrition information.