Example sentences for: chicanery

How can you use “chicanery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It claimed that in the Philippines "financial chicanery" is being employed by President Joseph Estrada to muzzle the press as he approaches the end of his first term.

  • But if "political chicanery and corruption" continue, the term might be "soon enough consigned to the already substantial scrap heap of meaningless African catch phrases."

  • 10 IMF chicanery.

  • Assorted police goons--among them the dependable heavy Frank Vincent and the blue-eyed, blankly malevolent Robert Patrick, the lethal shape-shifter of Terminator 2: Judgment Day --let the sheriff know he'd better turn his deaf ear on Ray's chicanery.

  • Gambling everywhere in America has produced its share of social disarray and political sleaziness, but nothing remotely equals South Carolina, whose poker industry was built on lies, legal chicanery, and just plain crime.


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