chicanery

Noun

Synonyms: trickery chicane guile wile shenanigan

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)Synonyms: trickery chicane guile wile shenanigan

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]