chicaner

French synonyms: chiner/she-nay/(to look for bargains) débattre (to discuss, debate a price) chicaner (to quibble over), lésiner = to skimp on

Brocante / Antiques 2010

French synonyms: chiner /she-nay/ (to look for bargains) débattre (to discuss, debate a price) chicaner (to quibble over), lésiner = to skimp on

Brocante / Antiques 2010

Traditionally modern rhetoric in the media and in the political landscape have primarily looked down in disdain at overblown management (and over-management) sectors or at ballooning bureaucracies and their machinery (or chicaner), which have appeared over the past decades to have grown like weeds on a Kansas landscape during rainy season. click here.

Marriage, Integration, and Immigration Policy -Modern Bureaucracy Reflecting the Worst 2009

He read it carefully, then he tore it up, "having always determined," he said, "not to (chicaner) go pettifogging for (or, dispute) his life."

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830

There can be no defence of the Oxford administration, for the manner in which it separated England from its allies and treated with a monarch who was well known to it as a political chicaner.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings Jonathan Swift 1706

We v. ill not tire (he reader h other inllBni-cs of his artifiee and chicaner) '.

Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries [microform]: From ... 1796

N'allez pas chicaner, Lecteur impertinent) (Le bâtiment à part, la Dame qui l'habite

A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755