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Definition of Chicaning
1. chicane [v] - See also: chicane
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chicaning
Literary usage of Chicaning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"I am sure it is not chicaning to presume that so great an author as your lordship
writes according to the rules of grammar, and as another man writes, ..."
2. Catalogue of the Library at Abbotsford by Walter Scott (1838)
"Marrow chicaning displayed, in a Letter to the Rev. ... E.) The Viper shaken off,&c.
being a short Answer to " Marrow chicaning displayed," &c. .......... и ..."
3. Essay on Irish Bulls by Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth (1803)
"Head of cheating or chicaning their neighbours.' Irishman.—' chicaning; ay,
there's the rub; they cannot live without ..."
4. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1865)
"He is very agreeable in conversation, polite, good-humored, and sensible; spoke
with great indignation against the practice of lying, chicaning, ..."
5. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of fortune were the gate
of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargain-making. ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Whereby come Dissident ejected Priests; unconquerable Martyrs according to some,
incurable chicaning Traitors according to others. ..."
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