Definitions for: Chicanery

[n] the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Webster (1913) 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.

Synonyms: guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile

See Also: deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, jugglery, put-on

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