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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ʃɪˈkeɪ.nɹ.i/,
  • IPA: /ʃɪˈkeɪ.nə.ɹi/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-chicanery.ogg


Noun

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


Translations

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


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