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Chicane (Verb)

Defeat someone through trickery or deceit.

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities.

The con artist tried to chicane the elderly woman out of her life savings with a fake investment scheme.
In the end, his underhanded tactics were successful in chicaning the competition to win the contract.
She was chicaned out of her rightful inheritance by her unscrupulous relatives.
His charm and charisma were used to chicane the investors into backing his ill-fated business venture.
The corrupt company hoped to chicane the regulators with a series of misleading reports and fake documents.

Raise trivial objections.

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

The politician's opponent continued to chicane, raising minor issues with the proposal.
Her lawyer was notorious for chicaning, using every technicality in the book to delay the trial.
The union representatives would chicane over even the smallest details, hoping to find a weakness.
As the meeting drew to a close, a committee member began to chicane, questioning every line item in the budget.
The company's lawyers spent months trying to chicane the activist group's lawsuit, searching for any grounds for dismissal.