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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
chicanery
n : the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
money from them) [syn: trickery, chicane, guile, wile,
shenanigan]
WordNet (r) 2.0
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "chicanery":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
chicane, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile
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