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
Just as generative AI is being used as a means, and excuse, to decimate labor forces across several other industries, the same is shaking out to be especially true for a game-development world already struggling with the cost of endless corporate chicanery.
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
For years, various politicians and pundits have yelled themselves hoarse over the danger of normalizing Trump’s chicanery, casual mendacity, outrageous divisiveness and outright criminal behavior.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
Here, Peña Nieto and his administration’s institutional chicanery has opened the space and set precedents for López Obrador to further erode the democratic rules of the game.
—Shannon K. O'Neil, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2018
During the teenage chicanery, a nearby customer was splashed with water droplets.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2024
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
For years, various politicians and pundits have yelled themselves hoarse over the danger of normalizing Trump’s chicanery, casual mendacity, outrageous divisiveness and outright criminal behavior.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
Here, Peña Nieto and his administration’s institutional chicanery has opened the space and set precedents for López Obrador to further erode the democratic rules of the game.
—Shannon K. O'Neil, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2018
During the teenage chicanery, a nearby customer was splashed with water droplets.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chicanery
Noun
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But because pressured waterfowl aren’t easy to fool, hunters have been trying to perfect the art of decoy deception to swing the odds in their favor.Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
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On Thursday, Prime Video debuted the first trailer for its series adaptation of the 1999 teen movie, all eight episodes premiering Nov. 21 on the streamer, bringing a familiar tale of deception to a new locale with all new characters.Glenn Garner, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
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Hosted by Alan Cumming, the game of treachery and deceit returns to Peacock on Thursday, January 9th.Anne Easton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Politics is full of deceit, treachery, and betrayal. . . .Quintus Tullius Cicero, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2012
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Putin’s ties to social media What Putin lacks as a military leader, the former KGB secret agent makes up for in subterfuge.Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
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When Lorraine’s cocoon of wealth begins to crack after Dot’s subterfuge, Wayne’s injuries, Roy’s threats, and Danish’s disappearance, Leigh centers the Queen of Debt’s humanizing concern.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
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There are many reasons beyond cheating and skulduggery that someone might root or modify their Android device.Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
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And so the tale of how the Giants established themselves at the Polo Grounds is told, accurately enough, as a piece of complicated capitalist skulduggery in which the team’s desperate owner bought a controlling interest in the Baltimore Orioles and then dragged its stars north.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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The documentary never suitably addresses any of this, nor Goode’s trickery.Jen Chaney, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
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While sudden incidents wrest the plot in new directions, the film is driven less by perverse narrative trickery than by the arbitrary cruelty of fate or the volatility of human nature.Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
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After the game, Roberts indicated there was no gamesmanship intended in that answer.Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
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The juxtaposition of the two worlds, one of which had been grazing horses in this area of the steppe for millennia, the other of which had, in a moment of daring and gamesmanship, started launching people into the cosmos with rockets meant to annihilate humanity, filled McConnell with wonder.Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
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In 2018, a public Strava map showing the activity of its users disclosed locations and staff members linked to global military bases, fueling concerns over how personnel publicly tracking their locations could compromise security and secrecy.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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Washington — The Republican National Committee asked the Supreme Court on Monday to put on hold a state high court decision that said election officials must count provisional ballots cast by a voter whose mail ballot was rejected because it was returned without a secrecy envelope.Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 28 Oct. 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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Any such legislative legerdemain would be an unwarranted assault to circumvent the caps.State Senator Stephen Harding, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2024
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“Chicanery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chicanery. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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