What's the difference between chicaner and chicanery?

Chicaner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who uses chicanery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) #FeelTheForce #TheHulk May 25, 2014 1.54pm BST Lap 34: Raikkonen is desperate to make up ground and come back through the field but in doing so makes a mistake at the Nouvelle Chicane and cuts the corner.
  • (2) Show me someone who likes their meat overcooked and I will show you a picky eater, someone who regards meal times as a set of challenges and insults to be negotiated, like oil-slicked chicanes on a race track.
  • (3) 2.02pm BST Lap 40 : Grosjean this time does take Kobayashi, at the Nouvelle Chicane.
  • (4) The umbilical connection between the US marines at Camp Leatherneck and the new model Afghan army in Camp Shorabak is a sandy chicane known as Friendship Gate, where Helmand's Afghan garrison draws sustenance from its departing foreign advisers.
  • (5) I was approaching a chicane, within 20m, travelling at 12-15mph; with the signage indicating that I had priority.
  • (6) Lewis Hamilton’s third Formula One world championship did not have the plot twists, the nuances of narrative and head-rattling chicanes that marked his previous two successes in 2008 and last year.
  • (7) 2.36pm BST Lap 65: Fastest lap of the race from Ricciardo who is throwing his Red Bull through corners, the back swinging in and out as he navigates a chicane, and he's closing on Hamilton who is now 4 secs back from Rosberg.
  • (8) Always doubtful about the conventional armoury of signs, speed bumps and chicanes, he began to explore the potential for influencing driver behaviour through stripping out highway paraphernalia, using instead simple design measures that emphasised the distinctiveness of each and every place.
  • (9) The unmetalled roads quickly become genuine offroad challenges, and while the views from the Delfi and other high points are stunning, the road chicanes along the edge of cliffs and there are no barriers except for the pine trees, and no road signs.
  • (10) It is urgent that all sides show restraint and take all possible steps to avoid further escalation. Updated at 9.08pm GMT 9.02pm GMT Ukraine continues to strengthen defenses along its eastern border , Reuters reports, but “there is no sign of a major troop buildup.” Border defences have been strengthened by an anti-tank chicane of house-high concrete blocks, placed across the highway that links the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and runs round the coast toward Crimea, 200 miles west.
  • (11) Valtteri Bottas gains three places via cutting the chicane.

Chicanery


Definition:

  • (n.) Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Volkswagen’s chicanery was discovered by good, old-fashioned analogue detective work.
  • (2) Osborne appeared on TV today, dressed in his now customary fluorescent building-site jacket, as if to suggest that even if it took financial chicanery and robbing the poor, Britain would soon be working again.
  • (3) 5.26pm BST 22 min: Colombia try to get away with some corner-based chicanery, but Howard Webb isn't having any of it.
  • (4) Juliette Jowit Transport While the headline cut sounds extreme, there is some chicanery here.
  • (5) Such chicanery, it was suggested, might include Democrats putting their support behind one of the Republican candidates rather than automatically giving a losing vote to the current minority leader, Nancy Pelosi.
  • (6) It is pushing the campaign off the front of the news locally.” The election has been a long, brutal process and people are much more interested in the World Series John Grabowski, Case Western Reserve University Grabowski cautioned against notions of baseball as morally pure escapism, noting the sport’s own history of “chicanery and trickery”, but added: “Nonetheless it’s linked to what America is supposed to be about – the field of dreams.
  • (7) Peres was an intriguingly contradictory figure: a romantic in a cynical age, an Israeli icon with a Polish accent and francophone sensibility, who carried about him the taint (deserved or otherwise) of political chicanery.
  • (8) As former Wall Street analyst Yves Smith wrote in her book ECONned: "What went on at Lehman and AIG, as well as the chicanery in the CDO [collateralized debt obligation] business, by any sensible standard is criminal."
  • (9) A World Cup in 2018 might have redressed the imbalance between Premier League power and the international game.Instead Fifa's talent for political chicanery has caused England to appear naive.
  • (10) However, it specifically excluded Scotland (and Northern Ireland), and not through Westminster chicanery, but because – as Roger Davidson and Gayle Davis argued in their 2014 book The Sexual State: Sexuality and Scottish Governance, 1950-80 – Scottish political and public opinion demanded it.
  • (11) "I suspect this is some chicanery from the right to misconstrue his proposals, because there is no anti-City crusade in what he is proposing.
  • (12) In Direct Line's latest he's convinced there must be a catch to salesman Chris Addison's straightforward pitch, and so congratulates him for non-existent chicanery.
  • (13) Many party supporters on both sides are, observers fear, already locked into attitudes subversive of democracy, notably the conviction that their side must and will win, and that, if it does not, it will only be because rigging, violence, or other chicanery have deprived them of the victory an honest vote would have brought.
  • (14) Labour MP Paul Flynn, who is deeply critical of the use of the indemnity, attacked the way it had been presented to parliament for using "chicanery, subterfuge and secrecy".
  • (15) Using cameras with night-vision equipment hidden inside fake Japanese rocks, filmmaker Louie Psihoyos brilliantly captures evidence of the fishermens' dirty secret and with it the chicanery of those who profit from it.
  • (16) They experienced adolescence, developed powerful mother-and-child bonds, and used political chicanery to get what they wanted.
  • (17) That were it not for Russian chicanery, Hillary Clinton would have won the popular vote by five million and not almost three million?
  • (18) Note: If it turns out the Red Sox were doctoring the gloves of the Cardinals fielders, then St Louis has a better argument that last night's embarrassment was somehow the fault of Boston chicanery.
  • (19) Cameron's chicanery probably played some role in climate change's fall from grace.
  • (20) If you are one of those people – like me – who has long thought that banking with the Co-op amounted to a small stand against the chicanery and stupidity of Finance Capital, you are likely to be feeling ever-so-slightly dazed.

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