(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.
Dishonesty
Definition:
(n.) Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame.
(n.) Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
(n.) Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act.
(n.) Lewdness; unchastity.
Example Sentences:
(1) In its statement, the league did not give details of the judgment, but made it clear that in its opinion, dishonesty by Cellino had been found.
(2) Sophisticated dishonesty can escape detection by peer review and replication.
(3) The Tory call last week for higher wages was breathtaking dishonesty, echoing the TUC’s “Britain Needs a Pay Rise” campaign.
(4) Before Laspo, cases of false imprisonment were always funded by legal aid and restricting funding only to dishonesty cases was never the stated intention of parliament.
(5) But Harvey said that, if the written verdict could be interpreted as finding Cellino guilty of dishonesty, then there was a chance he could still be barred from owning the club.
(6) He was a reactionary only in reacting against intellectual dishonesty and imposture.
(7) And in passing we should note Campbell's professional dishonesty in denying at the time that there was a breakdown between the prime minister and his chancellor and later, while Brown was in power, publishing extracts that misrepresented, by omission, the foul relationship between them.
(8) Cellino’s position as Leeds owner could therefore be in jeopardy as the Football League’s owners’ and directors’ test disqualifies individuals who “have unspent convictions for offences of dishonesty”.
(9) The shadow chancellor said it "will come down to honesty versus dishonesty", as parties battle for votes ahead of the general election, which is expected to take place on 6 May.
(10) Johnson is the master-builder of that image, deflecting every lie, every gaffe, dishonesty and U-turn with some self-deprecating metaphor: calling his feigned indecision “veering all over the place like a shopping trolley” was worth a world of worthy platitudes.
(11) A reference in an internal Leigh Day email to paying “bribes” was not a question of promoting dishonesty, Robertson said, but merely an expression of frustration by Malik at having to pay the Iraqi claimants for employment leave so that they could travel outside Iraq to record their legal statements.
(12) Because of the problems of dishonesty, fraud, and conflict of interest, academic medical institutions must establish codes of conduct to govern professional life.
(13) On VW’s Facebook page and on other online forums that cater to Volkswagen fans, there have been numerous comments posted by people angry about the automaker’s dishonesty.
(14) Gashi, who has been convicted for dishonesty, admitted lying in a police statement about the kidnap case.
(15) I suggest to him that he is paying the price not just for specific broken promises but for a deeper intellectual dishonesty at the heart of that broadcast.
(16) From the right, conservatives want to tar Democrats with a double brush of dishonesty, hoping it will boost a double election effect.
(17) And there is not a parliament in the world that would impose a national income tax on only some of the country but not on all of the country.” Brown accused David Cameron of dishonesty in failing to explain his plans in clear terms to the people of Scotland during the referendum campaign.
(18) Increasing coauthorship responsibility, conscientious senior investigator supervision, and institutional cooperation will provide the framework to discourage dishonesty in science and encourage proper educational development of both young and established investigators in a milieu of scientific integrity.
(19) "There is a widespread dishonesty about standards in English schools and low aspiration," he claims, before complaining that there is "a common view that only a small fraction of the population … should be given a reasonably advanced mathematical and scientific education" while many other pupils leave school with little more than basic numeracy.
(20) However much of a good thing the EU might be – and I would like to think it is a huge benefit – it is alarming that there has been so much behind-the-scenes manipulation and dishonesty in representing those benefits to the British electorate.