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Chicanery

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 \Chican"ery\, 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.

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

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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