Perhaps the thing desired has changed hands
through chicanery.
She crossed verbal swords with Machiavelli, saw
through his chicanery, and sent him away frustrated and chagrined.
Not exact matches
Because «he himself knew what was in man» (John 2:25), he pierced
through the veneer of «good» people to their
chicanery and self - deception, and saw that the keeping of the commandments from one's youth up was no substitute for single - minded devotion to God (Mark 10:17 - 22).
The hedge funds that got killed didn't have enough equity to carry their positions
through some market
chicanery.
Rather than using the phone's two cameras to create this effect (as most dual - camera phones do), the legwork is done
through software
chicanery.