Usage of "chicane" | TermGallery

Portuguese

astúcia

Catalan

engalipada

Spanish

astucia

The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

astúcia

Portuguese

roubar

Defeat someone through trickery or deceit.

roubar

Catalan

criticar

Spanish

criticar

Raise trivial objections.

criticar

Usage of chicane in English

The new recruit in the army of business chicane nodded his head. 
 The Quickening 

But the present extravagant proposition can only lead to chicane and quarrels. 
 Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with ... 

You want a field for your remarkable talent for conspiracy and chicane. 
 Mr. Prohack 

Roebuck was the keystone of the arch that sustained the structure of chicane. 
 The Deluge 

Coming out of the chicane the Frenchman overcooked it and crashed. 
 The Guardian 

If capable of respect, he was evidently also capable of chicane. 
 The Old Wives' Tale 

Greed, chicane, hypocrisy, uselessness are the ruling laws of human society. 
 The Ancien Régime 

Laws are made to be kept, else we live in a house of chicane. 
 Lewis Rand 

Indeed, he had a talent for chicane, and none knew it better than himself. 
 The Grim Smile of the Five Towns 

A revoking side cannot score, except for honors or chicane. 
 Auction of To-day 

Under these conditions, can either side score "except for honors or chicane?" 
 Auction of To-day 

The Italian lost control of his Alfa Romeo at the exit of the Fagnes chicane. 
 Reuters 

Give me but virtuous actions, and I will not quibble and chicane about the motives. 
 Letters to His Son, 1748 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ... 

He despised the little agent of chicane too much. 
 Under Western Eyes 

The whole atmosphere of trade was mephitic with chicane. 
 Equality 

Their procedure, like that of the seigneurial courts, was simple, free from chicane, and inexpensive. 
 Crusaders of New France / A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the... 