0 clever, dishonest talk or behaviour that is used to deceive people:
The investigation revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels.
1 dishonest but attractive talk or behavior that is used to deceive people:
The investigation has revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels.
It was a brilliant piece of political chicanery.
The political game everywhere involves manipulation and chicanery, deals and betrayals.
This was made worse by the political chicanery surrounding peace organisations in a country at war.
That is, the subjects judged deletion to be more likely in nursery than in cursory, in memory than in mammary, in scenery than in chicanery, and so on.
I find that there are no limits to the chicanery, dishonesty and callousness with which this matter of obtaining vacant possession is approached.
Many democracies have fallen and are falling, some of them because of party conspiracies and chicanery.
We have had a lot of words, "sordid", "cheat", "fraudulent", "chicanery", "gerrymander", "sham", "tricksters", and "nincompoop".
But there should be no kind of chicanery or flat-rate payments made when the travel expenses are claimed later.