chicanery

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

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Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice. John Adams

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress. William Whipple

So, what I do is a mixture of genuine psychological technique as well as all the chicanery and showmanship of the magician but it was enormously tempting to see what a clinical psychologist would make of it. Derren Brown

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. Ouida

"tt>/* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. */. Larry Wall

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on. David Remnick

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