slipperiness

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Noun
  • 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
  • Hosted by Alan Cumming, the game of treachery and deceit returns to Peacock on Thursday, January 9th.
    Anne Easton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • After eight episodes of legal and emotional chicanery, a jury finds Rusty Sabich not guilty of murdering his lover, Carolyn Polhemus.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 July 2024
Noun
  • This content, much of it clearly generated by AI rather than intended to deceive—a medium of crude self-expression, not sophisticated subterfuge—may have been the technology’s biggest impact on the 2024 presidential election.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But as the film goes on, those idiosyncrasies reveal themselves to be more like a blend of subterfuge and pleasure, another way for Macrinus to hide his intentions behind a veil.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Newly aware of his subordinate’s duplicity, Masa charges at Yuki from his seat among his look-alikes in the audience.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
  • The right-wing press, though, which had sung the praises of Reuss’ performance a few days earlier, now saw confirmation of characteristic Jewish duplicity and demanded that the government charge Reuss with fraud.
    Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Elegant and the users are never cognizant of the under-the-hood trickery.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Defenses continue to watch film on Darnold, but O'Connell could draw up some trickery by adding Jones to the mix.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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