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chicanery |
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chicanery Noun trickery or deception
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After the word chicanery there was a growing noise, half of murmurs and half of hisses, while four persons started up at once--Mr. Thorn was a plain, straightforward sailor, who never had two minds nor two prices in his dealings, was deficient in patience and pliancy, and totally wanting in the chicanery of traffic. Should not a magistrate be not merely the best administrator of the law, but the most crafty expounder of the chicanery of his profession, a steel probe to search hearts, a touchstone to try the gold which in each soul is mingled with more or less of alloy? |
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