chicanery

noun

shi-ˈkān-rē How to pronounce chicanery (audio)
Definition of chicanerynext
as in deception
the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end that candidate only won the election through chicanery

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Recent Examples of chicanery There will be years of political infighting, courtroom battles, and financial chicanery. — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025 That access has been critical, because producers are now forced to cut away from replays faster to capture more of that line-of-scrimmage chicanery. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 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 The eternal fight for liberty — slaves into gladiators, gladiators into free men — calls for courage and purpose beyond Lucius’s nightmarish expectations, uncovering the treachery and chicanery of Roman politics. — Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for chicanery
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chicanery
  1. deception
  2. treachery
  3. subterfuge
  4. skulduggery
  5. trickery
  6. gamesmanship
  7. secrecy
  8. legerdemain
Noun
  • In the beginning, each player is secretly assigned as either a Faithful or a Traitor, setting the stage for an intense game of deception, strategy and survival.
    — Jordana Comiter, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • After weeks of treachery and deception, the final roundtable has been viewed, and the winner or winners for The Traitors Season 3 have been revealed.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of deception
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  • His greatest dream, beside destroying Nato from within, is dividing the west and China - as a return favor for the treachery of Nixon’s demarche.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Witness was his 1952 manifesto on fellow-traveling American liberals and their treachery, which emboldened the Soviet Union.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Definition of treachery
Noun
  • With a bit of guidance, navigating between the classic go-to’s and the newer dining options are scattered throughout the properties can lead to incredible culinary discoveries, plenty of popping champagne bottles and even a dash of historical subterfuge.
    — Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
  • This sequence introduces The Agency as a maze of contradictory nationalist motivations, paranoia-inducing surveillance, and prevalent subterfuge — and, in its hidden center, a love story.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Definition of subterfuge
Noun
  • Obviously, such a system is rife with uncertainty, and the history of the process is full of skulduggery, both on the club and player side.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Climax became the first ever vegan cheesemaker to win a prestigious Good Food award—though dairy complaints caused the prize to be rescinded at the last minute, with shades of the protectionist, legal skulduggery faced by non-dairy milk products.
    — Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of skulduggery
Noun
  • Yet even as that’s happening, Patterson stages it all with an elliptical trickery that keeps the film knowingly off-balance.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The Spark Neo lacks the directional surround-sound trickery of the Boss headphones, and comes with just four tone presets loaded into the system out of the box.
    — Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 10 Feb. 2025
Definition of trickery
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  • The gamesmanship was high, with fan-favorites including Amanda Kimmel, James Clement, Courtney Yates and even former WWE wrestler Ashley Massaro.
    — Skyler Trepel, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The legislation died, not because of its content but because of political gamesmanship.
    — Joanie Schirm, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2025
Definition of gamesmanship
Noun
  • The French military official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the blueprint for the force that is shrouded in secrecy and the Paris talks that will consider it.
    — arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • In this instance, a photographer snapped a picture while the plane was being moved in nighttime secrecy.
    — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of secrecy
Noun
  • No matter how Congress formally scores the price of extending the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, as well as other Trump initiatives, accounting legerdemain can’t make fiscal reality disappear.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Congressional legerdemain can’t wave away that reality.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of legerdemain

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