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
But also because what happens in Georgia sets the recognizable pattern of political chicanery, disinformation and interference elsewhere.
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Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Specifically, expect to see a new look at the latest DLC for Alan Wake 2, The Lake House, and an in-depth look at the latest chicanery coming out of Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2024
OpenAI did not inflict its current legal headache on itself out of cunning chicanery, but out of a desire to satisfy a number of different early stakeholders, many of them true believers.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Election integrity crusaders have often sought to cast their efforts as innocent reactions to chicanery in the Democratic Party.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
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Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Specifically, expect to see a new look at the latest DLC for Alan Wake 2, The Lake House, and an in-depth look at the latest chicanery coming out of Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2024
OpenAI did not inflict its current legal headache on itself out of cunning chicanery, but out of a desire to satisfy a number of different early stakeholders, many of them true believers.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Election integrity crusaders have often sought to cast their efforts as innocent reactions to chicanery in the Democratic Party.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chicanery
Noun
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Watch on Deadline In the wake of his father’s disappearance at sea, Kojo, a young Ghanaian is drawn into a world of street gang and deception.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
14 Jan. 2025
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Directed by Su Biao, the comedy about a woman entangled in financial deception has remained a steady performer since its release on Dec. 31.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
13 Jan. 2025
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Welcome back for another season full of [Alan Cumming voice] deception, backstabbing and treachery!—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
9 Jan. 2025
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Yet Milady and her treachery have for nearly 200 years always stood out.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
15 Apr. 2024
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There is a precedent for such scientific subterfuge.—
Henry A. Kissinger,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Nov. 2024
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In an era rife with conspiracy theories and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps our imagining?—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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Calling it his novel is a bit of authorial trickery: Griffin Hurt doesn’t exist.—
Stuart Miller,
Orange County Register,
16 Jan. 2025
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Kari Ferrell’s memoir is a zippy, intimate account of low-level trickery before the era of scams fully erupted.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
15 Jan. 2025
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This is political gamesmanship at its worst, planting a trap for lawmakers by exploiting a tragedy.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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Is there a difference between cheating and gamesmanship?—
Alan Shearer,
The Athletic,
27 Dec. 2024
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In her 30-year career, Laura has won numerous national awards for coverage of human trafficking, child welfare, crime and government secrecy.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
23 Jan. 2025
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That year, The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer of Raleigh investigated the secrecy cloaking the state’s poultry industry.—
Gavin Off,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Jan. 2025
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Congressional legerdemain can’t wave away that reality.—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes,
4 Dec. 2024
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Both activities depended on legerdemain and made elaborate use of optical illusions.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes,
23 Sep. 2024
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“Chicanery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chicanery. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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