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Definition of Chicaneries
1. chicanery [n] - See also: chicanery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chicaneries
Literary usage of Chicaneries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"THE TURF : ITS FRAUDS AND chicaneries. BY the deaths of Lord Zetland, the Grand
Master Mason of England, and Mr. Topham, the well-known handicapper, ..."
2. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"The answers which will be respectively given to these letters will prevent many
questions, discussions, and chicaneries, because that orders will then be ..."
3. Porcupine's Works: Containing Various Writings and Selections, Exhibiting a by William Cobbett (1801)
"If this does not deserve a rib-roasting, I do not know what does. If this goes
off so, then charge like this than a pen. The chicaneries of ..."
4. The Pamphleteer by Abraham John Valpy (1821)
"... many obstacles presented to the approach of independent electors, many
diversified chicaneries and often varied, in the different departments.1 How many ..."
5. Cases Argued and Decreed in the High Court of Chancery [1660-1697]. by Great Britain Court of Chancery (1828)
"chicaneries of law, ridiculous, 33 Condition, vide Will. Contingency, vide Remainder.
Limitation of a trust of a term under contingencies, void, ..."
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