Meaning of CHICANERY
| Pronunciation: | | shi'keynuree
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| | Definition: | | [n] the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
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| | Synonyms: | | guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| | See Also: | | deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, jugglery, put-on | |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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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