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[syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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 (r) 3.0 (2006):
chicanery
n 1: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane,
guile, wile, shenanigan]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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