About The Word Chicanery

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Chicanery

Chicanery Meaning & Definition
Chicanery Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Chicanery?

[n] the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Chicanery: guile | shenanigan | trickery | wile

Related Terms | Find terms related to Chicanery: art | artful dodge | artifice | bag of tricks | baseness | bickering | blind | bluff | boggling | bosey | captiousness | catch | caviling | cheating | chicane | chouse | collusion | connivance | connivery | conspiracy | contrivance | coup | covin | craft | curve | curve-ball | cute trick | deceit | deception | degradation | design | device | deviousness | dirty deal | dirty trick | dishonesty | dodge | dodgery | dodging | double-dealing | duplicity | equivocation | evasion | expedient | fakement | fast deal | feint | fencing | fetch | ficelle | foul play | fraud | furtiveness | gambit | game | gimmick | googly | grift | hairsplitting | hanky-panky | hedging | hocus-pocus | intrigue | joker | juggle | jugglery | knavery | knavishness | little game | logic-chopping | machination | maneuver | moral turpitude | move | nit-picking | paltering | parrying | pass | pettifoggery | pettifogging | plot | ploy | prevarication | pussyfooting | quibbling | racket | rascality | rascalry | red herring | reprobacy | roguery | roguishness | ruse | scampishness | scheme | scoundrelism | scurvy trick | sharp practice | shift | shifting | shuffling | sidestepping | skulduggery | sleight | sleight of hand | sleight-of-hand trick | sophistry | stratagem | strategy | subterfuge | supercherie | surreptitiousness | tactic | tergiversation | trichoschistism | trick | trickery | turpitude | underhand dealing | underhandedness | vileness | villainousness | villainy | wile | wily device

See Also | deceit | deception | dissembling | dissimulation | dupery | fraud | fraudulence | hoax | humbug | jugglery | put-on

Chicanery In Webster's Dictionary

\Chi*can"er*y\, n. [F. chicanerie.] Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Irritated by perpetual chicanery. --Hallam. Syn: Trickery; sophistry; stratagem.

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