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Dictionary Results For "chicanery" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

From {{term|chicanerie||trickery|lang=fr}} from .

Pronunciation

IPA: /ʃɪˈkeɪ.nɹ.i/,
IPA: /ʃɪˈkeɪ.nə.ɹi/
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Noun

Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
A slick performance by a lawyer.

Translations

Finnish: petos, petkutus, epärehellisyys

Polish: krętactwo , matactwo

Synonyms

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Chicanery \Chi*can"er*y\, n. [F. chicanerie.]
Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the
truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
[1913 Webster]

Irritated by perpetual chicanery. --Hallam.

Syn: Trickery; sophistry; stratagem.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet chicanery
n : the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
money from them) [syn: trickery, chicane, guile, wile,
shenanigan]

Moby Dictionary
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