How to Use chicanery in a Sentence

chicanery

noun

• He wasn't above using chicanery to win votes.
• And that’s with Kelly Olynyk and his flowing locks yet to join the chicanery.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2020
• All of that chicanery earned him the ire of Flores and some other Mets.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 23 June 2017
• Jeff German weathered all of it — the new owners, the new faces, the same old chicanery.
  — Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2022
• The claim of a plot to steal the election makes sense to people who see Trump as a warrior against deep-state chicanery.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 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
• Jackrabbit contract offers and other forms of chicanery have not stopped in the years since 2016.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2022
• There's been adequate evidence for the press to call out this chicanery all along.
  — Talmon Joseph Smith, GQ, 30 Sep. 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
• None of this chicanery would have been egregious enough to catch the Supreme Court’s attention even if last week’s ruling went the other way.
  — Steve Mulroy, The New Republic, 8 July 2019
• 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
• But the chicanery of Pitino’s program in recent seasons would have been an albatross to the Big 12.
  — Tim Griffin, ajc, 27 Sep. 2017
• This rule prevents chicanery involving the stymie rule.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
• Safety Daniel Etter took on the enforcer’s role, staying close to the Axe in case any chicanery unfolded.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• And White’s done it without the FBI wire-tapping his phone and without a hint of the cheating and chicanery that pervades the cesspool of college basketball.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2021
• Michigan State football special teams coach Ross Els’ call for some chicanery would work.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2021
• And with the coronavirus's chicanery, anything could still happen between now and then....
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Other than some sort of acrobatic chicanery, Rizzo’s best chance to be safe was to dislodge the ball from Hedges’ grasp.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 June 2017
• A number of websites have sprung up in response to the growing digital chicanery.
  — Y. Peter Kang, WIRED, 10 July 2000
• There were fears of chicanery, causing both companies’ share prices to waver.
  — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
• 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
• The potential for chicanery hasn’t disappeared by any stretch.
  — Paul Waldman, The Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Generally speaking, the average sports fan winked and laughed at the tales of college chicanery.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• Chess has long been a game rife with allegations of chicanery and skullduggery.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
• Little Shell and his followers became a diaspora of people whose names were literally struck from tribal membership rolls as a result of this federal chicanery related to land theft.
  — Noah Davis, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2024
• That, of course, is classic Trump chicanery: to dangle an outrageous accusation in a Truth Social post, in order to distract voters from focusing on the alleged possession of classified documents in his Florida home.
  — David McGrath, Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024