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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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