Chicaneries [noun]

In 1500 the palace was the shrine of an artistic nobility; to-day it is a temple of chicanery.

The time will come, however, when old Virginia will stand trifling and chicanery no longer.

This substitution of chicanery in place of devastation takes place only in an uncertain degree.

To be defeated by rascality, by a clever turn of chicanery, never disturbed him—that was legitimate.

A goodly portion of my life has been spent in battling with superstition, credulity and chicanery in every form.

In pamphlets lawyers will meet with their chicanery, physicians with their cant, divines with their Shibboleth.

It is affirmed that it is unnecessary and could not be carried out without intolerable chicanery.

The mere acquaintanceship with Palack was enough to expose one to the chicanery of the police.

To be so suddenly introduced to the mystery and the chicanery of the world would bewilder an older and less emotional man.

It cleared his character and reputation from every imputation of unfairness, injustice, and chicanery.