The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Defeat someone through trickery or deceit.
Raise trivial objections.
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Examples for "carp "
Examples for "carp "
1 Again the line tightened and again the carp turned to the shore.
2 Stew the carp in red wine, drain, and place on a platter.
3 Enormous prices were paid for carp , the favorite dish of the Romans.
4 The carp were now fighting for the very last bit of bread.
5 There's a picture of a carp on the sign at the inn.
1 The Ontarian, in fact, did not object in a spirit of cavil .
2 No one would cavil with the Cork Constitution, Munster and Ireland wing.
3 The critics did not venture to cavil at his preaching to Gentiles.
4 It then bore a better appearance, and was less open to cavil .
5 And while the critics may carp and cavil , they're not buying tickets.
1 The new recruit in the army of business chicane nodded his head.
2 But the present extravagant proposition can only lead to chicane and quarrels.
3 You want a field for your remarkable talent for conspiracy and chicane .
4 Roebuck was the keystone of the arch that sustained the structure of chicane .
5 Coming out of the chicane the Frenchman overcooked it and crashed.
6 If capable of respect, he was evidently also capable of chicane .
7 Greed, chicane , hypocrisy, uselessness are the ruling laws of human society.
8 Laws are made to be kept, else we live in a house of chicane .
9 Indeed, he had a talent for chicane , and none knew it better than himself.
10 A revoking side cannot score, except for honors or chicane .
11 Under these conditions, can either side score "except for honors or chicane ? "
12 The Italian lost control of his Alfa Romeo at the exit of the Fagnes chicane .
13 Give me but virtuous actions, and I will not quibble and chicane about the motives.
14 He despised the little agent of chicane too much.
15 The whole atmosphere of trade was mephitic with chicane .
16 Their procedure, like that of the seigneurial courts, was simple, free from chicane , and inexpensive.
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