If he did not, and his other wife wished to be free, surely in the chicane of the law-courts there must be some shuffle that could be for once made useful to a good end.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
We must not, therefore, be surprised to find these very men, so true to their word in general, using, upon other occasions, various resources of cunning and chicane, against which the border laws were in vain directed.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
17. Trickery, cunning, chicane, fraud.
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood