Example sentences for: chicanery

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

  • 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.

  • The media tycoon has built his global empire on schlock and sleaze, used heavy-handed tactics and legal chicanery to evade laws and taxes, toppled British and Australian governments to expand his domain, all but bribed Newt Gingrich and Margaret Thatcher with sweetheart book deals, made mockery of the grand traditions of Australian/British/American journalism.

  • 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.

  • 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."


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