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- verb Present participle of
chicane .
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Examples
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One of his last novels, Valis, was anything but a mainstream thriller, filled with warped realities and chicaning plot lines, and it still managed to sell more than 130,000 copies in hardback and paperback on its release.
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And here he exposes himself as just the kind of mendacious, chicaning, empty bag of wind he has always appeared to be.
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Spoke with great Indignation against the practice of lying, chicaning and finessing, in Negotiations.
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The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of fortune were the gate of niggardly economy or the path of little chicaning bargain-making.
Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists Various 1918
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'All this is cogging and lying and feigning and chicaning.
The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906
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'Listen again,' she pursued, 'anon there shall come the Emperor's men, and there shall be more cogging and chicaning, and honours shall be given me that I may be bought dear, and petitioning that I should be set in the succession to make them eager.
The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906
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But the poor girl had no thought of so chicaning away life; her mind was fixed on far other subjects.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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Dissident ejected Priests; unconquerable Martyrs according to some, incurable chicaning Traitors according to others.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of fortune were the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargain-making.
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The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of fortune were the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargain-making.
The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777
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