Example sentences for: chicanery

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

  • 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.

  • Basic premises: Clinton's reckless, repeated adultery weakens essential moral codes; his betrayal of vows and his lies undermine public trust; his use of legal chicanery to duck ethical responsibility is cowardly and grotesque; the public's silence in the face of this is a capitulation, "moral disarmament"; and America, which has always believed that politicians' moral behavior matters, must start judging Clinton's character.

  • A high sense of integrity took the place of what Clive called “fighting, chicanery, intrigues, politics, and Lord knows what. ”

  • 10 IMF chicanery.

  • 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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