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Chicanery 

What you accuse your brother of when you find out he hid a battery in your coat.
Jimmy pulled this chicanery! He defecated through a sunroof!
Chicanery by grease_of_sandwich February 8, 2021
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Chicanery 

The use of deceptive or underhanded tactics. May also describe the act of defecating through a sunroof
" You think this is something? You think this is bad? This, this chicanery? He's done worse.

Chicanery 

Better Call Saul or Breaking Bad media is known as 'Chicanery'
The actual word means lies or deception
I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers. I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! *He* orchestrated it! Jimmy! He *defecated* through a *sunroof*! And I saved him! And 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 9, *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've stopped him when I had the chance!
Chicanery by oneaftermagnacarta1216 September 23, 2022

chicanery 

Deception by trickery or sophistry.
A trick; a subterfuge.

Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
The Bush Administration is now the commander-in-theif (lower-case intentional) thanks to their chicanery.
chicanery by Peter Drumm May 1, 2004

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.
chicanery by marvin a April 19, 2006

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
Chicanery by Chicanery_Master August 1, 2024

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.
shabby chicanery by Tom Terranova August 17, 2007
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Failure Shower 

When you fail at something in life (eg. failing an exam or not getting a job), go home and spend an hour just standing in the shower, propping yourself up against the wall with your eyes on your feet.
Caleb knew the only thing to do after he didnt get prefect was take a failure shower.
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