The word "chicanery" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that means the use of cunning or deception to achieve one's ends. Example sentence: "The politician was accused of using chicanery to gain power."
Juliette Jowit While the headline cut sounds extreme, there is some chicanery here.
I confess that I'm confused as to why the results of a survey showing that a significant minority of those working both on Wall Street and in the City of London have first-hand knowledge of some kind of chicanery going on at work grabbed headlines in virtually every major financial publication last week.
If this is indeed the UUP-DUP strategy, and if the Tories are in any way giving assent or even turning a blind eye to this chicanery, it will only increase fears among all nationalists that once again the "orange card", played since the days of Bonar Law and Edward Carson, has come into play once more.
Why does this chicanery matter?
The unstated assumption, which I think is pretty common among Republicans, is that Barack Obama won through some combination of chicanery, anti-white racism and his "cool" factor.
There are organisational question-marks over Ms Silva's failure to register her own political party in time for this presidential campaign she alleges chicanery, others say she started the process of registration too late.
Member states "appear to be on a collision course", says Koen Roovers of the Financial Transparency Coalition, a group of NGOs.Mr Roovers and his fellow activists will work hard to keep the issue in the public eye, shouting loudly about every instance of shell-company chicanery they come across.
Legal chicanery meant that an opposition coalition had great difficulty even registering.
And nowhere is this chicanery more evident than in energy, the area of policy closest to the financial and personal interests of Mr Bush and his vice-president, Dick Cheney.What energy crisis?The great irony is that while greens invent an environmental crisis with which to berate Mr Bush, he himself invents an energy crisis to justify his ungreen, pork-barrel energy policies.
Once you adjust his budget for this sort of chicanery, the true cost of the tax cuts in his budget is around $1 trillion over ten years.Fortunately, this budget will not become law.
All the same, the well of mistrust on both sides runs deep.Many liberals still think the Islamists, however mild they sound today, are bent on taking over in the long run, would abandon democracy once they got into power and would use every sort of chicanery and violence to achieve their goal.
