Chicanery

Quick meaning: Chicanery is a noun meaning (uncountable) Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

Meaning

(uncountable) Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

More Meanings

1. (countable) An individual act of trickery or deception.
2. (uncountable, archaic) The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.

Example Sentences

They do not always find manors, got by rapine or chicanery, insensibly to melt away, as the poets will have it; or that all gold glides, like thawing snow, from the thief’s hand that grasps it.

He carried home with him all the knaviſh chicanery of the loweſt pettifogger, together with a wife whom he had purchſed of a drayman for twenty pounds; and he ſoon found means to obtain a Dedimus as an acting juſtice of peace.

Stanford University's honor code dates to 1921, written by students to help guide them through the minefield of plagiarism, forbidden collaboration, copying and other chicaneries that have tempted undergraduates since they first arrived on college campuses.

He covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy!

Word Forms

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Synonyms for chicanery

Depending on context, synonyms include dishonesty, fakery, fraud, trickery, subterfuge, shenanigan.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trickery, wile, guile, shenanigan, persecution, bullying.

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