Chicanery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Deception by trickery or sophistry.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
  • n. A slick performance by a lawyer.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Chicane; mean or petty artifices; trickery; sophistry.
  • n. Synonyms Quibbling, stratagem, duplicity.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deception    dissimulation    dissembling    deceit   
    Cross Reference
    Philadelphia lawyer   
    Hyponym
    fraudulence    put-on    jugglery    hoax    humbug    dupery    fraud   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sophistry    trickery    stratagem    deceit    chicane    prevarication    pettifogging    pettifoggery    dishonesty    subterfuge   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    grainery   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dissimulation    trickery    subterfuge    deceit    knavery    duplicity    peculation    artifice    venality    stratagem   
     
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