shabby chicanery

Hybrid term melding "shabby chic" and "chicanery."

shabby chic:
a style using worn and deteriorated items to achieve an elegant overall effect

chicanery:
trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry

Shabby chicanery:
Constant failed attempts at using second-hand items in one's home decor to achieve a look of false elegance. Result is invariably much more Salvation Army than Apres-La-Guerre.

Another broke down La-Z-Boy? Enough with the shabby chicanery, already.

by Tom Terranova August 17, 2007

chicanery

it's a place where Chicanos (mexican-americans) go to school to learn trades.

he went to a chicanery and learned how to fix cars.

by marvin a April 19, 2006

Bullshit - Chicanery

An act of deception that is attended to mislead or trick an individual.

Professor Davis's test was Bullshit - Chicanery, not of the students pass.

by ShadownKnuckles June 16, 2017

Chipanzees

Usually a word used commonly by Olivius Murphius species

I went to the zoo and saw the CHIPANZEES.

by Cwigs1216 April 21, 2019

Chicanery

the yapping of jude.

Chuck: You think this is something- you think this is bad? This, this chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard. Are you telling me a man just happens to fall like that? No, he orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof, and I saved him! I shouldn't have, I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was nine, always the same. Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer. "But not our Jimmy, couldn't be precious Jimmy!" Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer? What a sick joke! I should have stopped him when I had the chance. And you- you have to stop him, you...

STOP THE CHICANERY

by Chicanery_Master August 1, 2024