Eric Alterman

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

American Writer

Alex Pareene

If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing sphere, I would read the absolute heck out of it.

Angela Merkel

During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened.

German Statesman

William Whipple

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

American Politician

Asif Kapadia

The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

British Director

Mike Farrell

It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?

American Actor

John Adams

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

American President

Ouida

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

English Novelist

Chicanery usually implies negative judgment and is considered unethical.

Often Negative

Chicanery refers to clever, subtle schemes or deception, not obvious lies.

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Chicanery is often discussed in contexts involving politics, business, or finance.

Common Contexts

 why you don't notice there are only three fingers down here, because the mind, and the way it processes information, it doesn't count, one, two, three. It groups them. But that's not really what this is about. Right? And then I open my hand up. Obviously it's clinging there, not by animal magnetism, but by chicanery,

Chicanery

The act of tricking someone by using dishonest methods.

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