Chicanery means 'clever but misleading talk; a false argument; trickery; deception', according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary and it seems to be prevalent wherever you look. For example, the European Economic Community began as a free-trade association. Then it was driven well beyond mere economic affiliation to become a complex, undemocratic, political combination whose promised benefits have evaporated. Its occupants now find themselves shackled together in a prison-house of mutual acrimony and mistrust.
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