chicanery English

Meaning chicanery meaning

What does chicanery mean?

chicanery

— noun (= trickery) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Synonyms chicanery synonyms

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chicanery English » English

trick

deception

chicane

trickery

guile

deceit

wile

swindle

stratagem

sophistry

shenanigan

play on words

pettifogging

pettifoggery

intrigue

artifice

wrangling

underhand action

tricks

treason

treachery

traitorousness

take-in

subversiveness

subterfuge

sophism

sham

sellout

ruse

quibble

prevarication

prank

positive fraud

perfidy

mendacity

machination

lies

knavery

insincerity

indirection

gyp

fraudulence

fraud in fact

fraud

frame-up

false pretense

false pretence

fake

dupery

double cross