chicanery

• For today only the following The French ambassador is going to give me his vise [i.e. the French term for "visa"] of my passport through France after repeated applications in Paris, but this is subject to all manner of chicanery, which is disgusting to me, and must be got out of the way, so that in future I may be able to pass without difficulty and at any time through and into France. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2
• With or without chicanery, the count ran close, and no one knew the result until August 9. —  Three Roads to Alamo
• The self-declared "winner's" "victory" turned on disputed votes cast -- or preventded from being cast -- in a province infamous for political chicanery, fraud, and abuse, and which is governed by the "victor's" brother ... —  My Left Wing - Front Page
• More mistakes … more chicanery - in other words, just what you'd expect. —  The Daily Reckoning
• Once the general public learns to apply skepticism and critical thinking for themselves, less and less chicanery will be foisted upon them and perhaps a new age will dawn. —  Mike's Weekly Skeptic Rant

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