How to Use chicanery in a Sentence

chicanery

noun
  • He wasn't above using chicanery to win votes.
  • Democrats have stood still for this chicanery every time it’s been tried in the past.
    — Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • There’s still a lot of baseball chicanery to take place over the next few months, though.
    — Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
  • This sort of chicanery is rare, but revealing.
    — George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2026
  • All of that chicanery earned him the ire of Flores and some other Mets.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 23 June 2017
  • There's been adequate evidence for the press to call out this chicanery all along.
    — Talmon Joseph Smith, GQ, 30 Sep. 2017
  • And that’s with Kelly Olynyk and his flowing locks yet to join the chicanery.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Jeff German weathered all of it — the new owners, the new faces, the same old chicanery.
    — Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2022
  • During the teenage chicanery, a nearby customer was splashed with water droplets.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2024
  • There were fears of chicanery, causing both companies’ share prices to waver.
    — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
  • McAfee acknowledged post-match that a little chicanery works, as long as the ref doesn't see it.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 31 July 2022
  • Chess has long been a game rife with allegations of chicanery and skullduggery.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The potential for chicanery hasn’t disappeared by any stretch.
    — Paul Waldman, The Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2019
  • A number of websites have sprung up in response to the growing digital chicanery.
    — Y. Peter Kang, WIRED, 10 July 2000
  • There’s a tremendous amount of financial chicanery that goes on in 2026.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2026
  • Or read the newspaper, because lately, they are filled with tales of chicanery from those same hospitals.
    — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The film rigorously tried to make sense of both the digital and financial chicanery that went down.
    — Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Michigan State football special teams coach Ross Els’ call for some chicanery would work.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The tale away from the playing field in recent years has been dizzying, one of soaring costs and debts, of quirks and chicanery unseen elsewhere.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The trial was a kangaroo circus packed with sophism, subterfuge, and courtroom chicanery.
    — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Jackrabbit contract offers and other forms of chicanery have not stopped in the years since 2016.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Generally speaking, the average sports fan winked and laughed at the tales of college chicanery.
    — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
  • There are exciting scenes of sales charts, corporate confetti, cash, and pills, as well as lots of screaming and chicanery.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The post covers a lot of ground, plus several specific claims of corporate chicanery.
    — Vulture, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Still, Mitchell says using the new lines could open the city up to legal chicanery that would only further complicate the process.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Also, Damien Wayne is there too, but his allegiances are suspect thanks to a bit of mind control chicanery.
    — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Some cinematic chicanery did take place, just not nearly as much as some have said, and Cooper managed to learn to throw with his left.
    — Douglass K. Daniel, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2017
  • Chastain shows you that Tammy Faye was a dupe, in too deep not to be part of the chicanery, but also a kind of innocent.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Fortunately, society is waking up to the chicanery of the rankings scam.
    — Michael Thaddeus, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
  • That’s why almost no one has done time for the financial chicanery that produced the Great Recession.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020

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