'Chicanery' definitions:
Definition of 'chicanery'
(from WordNet)
noun
The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan]
Definition of 'Chicanery'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'chicanery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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