The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
1 The suit proceeded with all the languor and chicanery of the period.
2 It was six weeks of chicanery , drinking, prostitution, deal-making, vote-peddling, and corruption.
3 The organized workers not only distrust the politician but detest political chicanery .
4 Or would you say that subtlety, chicanery , trickery, were here at work?
5 Else why this double dealing, this deceit, this chicanery , these hollow professions?
6 Still less so in cases of knowledge gained by chicanery , thefting.
7 Had to ask him about Ilona and Lothar and the chicanery in Leipzig.
8 Madame doesn't hold with such chicanery , but I know there's them that do.
9 They were constituted of such inferior clay that the veriest chicanery fooled them.
10 Then he disclosed to her the whole chicanery of Mr. Oxford.
11 Both are truly gained, not by chicanery , but by personal force.
12 As for your tricks of chicanery , I want none of them.
13 A perfectly fake president could be political chicanery or high-production-quality satire.
14 Okay, so we've identified the chicanery of Barack Obama and his Zombie-inducing surrogates.
15 What do you mean by bringing up chicanery of this sort?
16 There won't be any litigation and chicanery to help you out, young man.
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