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- noun   Plural form of chicanery .
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Examples
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								Not exactly a path less travelled, but it had an exceptional cast and a deft enough script (Brian Fillis) to avoid the lurch into Waterloo Road (or, worse, Dead Poets Society) – quick footwork, too, to craft a zeitgeisty subplot around this summer's policy reversals on new build and the tempting chicaneries of academy status. Lost Land of the Tiger; Unequal Opportunities; Excluded; Spooks; Seven Days Phil Hogan 2010 
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								Barring any chicaneries or tomfooleries, or any other stupid word, whoever wins, wins. Archive 2007-10-01 2007 
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								Who pocketed the most profits that was obtained by the supposed chicaneries? 
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								Were they at least on the job while the supposed chicaneries of the bare majority Democrats was going on? 
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								HEEP – and by — HEEP — fraudulently obtained or withheld from Mr.W. himself, on pretence of such speculations or otherwise; perpetuated by a miscellaneous catalogue of unscrupulous chicaneries — gradually thickened, until the unhappy Mr.W. could see no world beyond. David Copperfield 2007 
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								The result was even accepted by Rosales even though the chicaneries of the chavista machinery might have padded up by a million votes the Chavez total. 
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								This one was watching placidly as the opposition was debating endlessly the now professional chicaneries of the CNE instead of Chavez misrule. 
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								The result was even accepted by Rosales even though the chicaneries of the chavista machinery might have padded up by a million votes the Chavez total. 
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								This one was watching placidly as the opposition was debating endlessly the now professional chicaneries of the CNE instead of Chavez misrule. 
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								* Trevanyi: nomadic folk of a distinctive racial stock, prone to thievery, sorcery, and other petty chicaneries; an excitable, passionate, vengeful people. Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973 
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