Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.
It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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.
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.
Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishones...
Charity is salt in the wound. It is painful. The state gives charity with the bitter hatred of a victim to his blackmailer. The receiver of free money is subjected to harassment, insult, and profound humiliation. Newspapers are enlisted to heap scorn...
