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chicanery

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chi·can·er·y  (sh-kn-r, ch-)
n. pl. chi·can·er·ies
1. Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. A trick; a subterfuge.
chicanery
Noun
trickery or deception
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.chicanerychicanery - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
wile, shenanigan, trickery, chicane, guile
dissimulation, deception, dissembling, deceit - the act of deceiving
dupery, hoax, put-on, humbug, fraud, fraudulence - something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
jugglery - artful trickery designed to achieve an end; "the senator's tax program was mere jugglery"
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Spanish chicanery [ʃɪˈkeɪnərɪ] n → embustes mpl; sofismas mpl
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After the word chicanery there was a growing noise, half of murmurs and half of hisses, while four persons started up at once--Mr.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Thorn was a plain, straightforward sailor, who never had two minds nor two prices in his dealings, was deficient in patience and pliancy, and totally wanting in the chicanery of traffic.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
Should not a magistrate be not merely the best administrator of the law, but the most crafty expounder of the chicanery of his profession, a steel probe to search hearts, a touchstone to try the gold which in each soul is mingled with more or less of alloy?
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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