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chicanery::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | chicane, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
| Type of | deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation |
| Has types | dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, jugglery, put-on |
| Derivation | chicane |
Examples of chicanery
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I suspect that your company's policy is meant to thwart that sort of chicanery.
From the nytimes.com
There's a possibility that Hillary Clinton was involved in financial chicanery.
From the sfgate.com
Am very alarmed that British law firms and auditors connived in this chicanery.
From the guardian.co.uk
Despite numerous instances of chicanery, the appeal of Spiritualism was strong.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It is time for the governor to do the decent thing and abandon this chicanery.
From the thestate.com
Longtime Republican attorney Erl Ellis believed chicanery must have been underway.
From the denverpost.com
But the card-check legislation is both pretty pure chicanery and pretty well dead.
From the economist.com
She accused Ruedrich of political chicanery and eventually resigned in frustration.
From the sacbee.com
Politics, tortured logic and financial chicanery would not factor into the process.
From the stltoday.com
- Trickery: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- Chicanery, an American experimental rock band, is a collaboration between Warren Cuccurullo and Neil Carlill. The band is based in Los Angeles California, although band members live across the U.S. ...
- Chicanery is the debut album of the group Chicanery, a collaboration between Warren Cuccurullo, formerly with Frank Zappa, a founding member of Missing Persons, and also formerly with Duran Duran; and Neil Carlill, founding member of Delicatessen, and formerly with Lodger. ...
- Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge; A slick performance by a lawyer
- Edging a plow into another man's strips in the field; a fine worthy offense.
- The use of clever but tricky talk or action to deceive or evade, as in legal dealings.
- (n) trickery, mischief
