He wasn't above using chicanery to win votes. that candidate only won the election through chicanery

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And left-wing business skeptics have long lashed Delaware as a haven of corporate chicanery and greed for its generous tax shelters. David Mark, Washington Examiner, "Delaware gets its turn in the political limelight," 18 Aug. 2020

To limit chicanery at Disney, the NBA locked the lottery teams into place based on the March 11 standings, when the league shut down for four months amid the coronavirus pandemic. Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, "Winderman: Yes, you can drive a tank through a bubble (feeling a draft at Disney) | Commentary," 8 Aug. 2020

The prescience of Bergstrom and West’s methods now haunts us every day in the data chicanery underlying the Covid-19 catastrophe in the United States. C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, "Calling Bullshit Skewers the World’s BS Merchants," 4 Aug. 2020

Compared with the average wealthy nation, America spends nearly twice as much of its national wealth on health care, about a quarter of which is wasted on inefficient care, unnecessary treatments, and administrative chicanery. Ed Yong, The Atlantic, "How the Pandemic Defeated America," 3 Aug. 2020

Forward to 2018 again, to the sense of chicanery and injustice around Stacey Abrams’ defeat in her run for governor of Georgia, balanced by Democratic control of the U.S. House of Representatives. al, "‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’ weaves past, present together," 2 July 2020

The abuses and intellectual chicanery of empire undoubtedly contributed to this. Bloomberg.com, "Robots Pose Biggest Risk to the Poorest Countries," 29 Apr. 2020

Later, Shelby is again confronted by Beebe, whose mealy-mouthed bureaucratic jargon and weaselly chicanery inflects the entire drama. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, "The Airbrushed Racing History of “Ford v Ferrari”," 19 Nov. 2019

Within four years, with Roosevelt now in the White House, American troops arrived to garrison the Isthmus of Panama, where the United States, employing considerable chicanery, was setting out to build a canal. Andrew J. Bacevich, Harper's magazine, "The Old Normal," 2 Mar. 2020

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