chicanery
8
9.3
- noun
- /ʃɪˈkeɪnəri/
- Formal
:
engaño
- The company's bankruptcy was mainly due to financial chicanery that misled investors.
- financial chicanery
- political chicanery
- legal chicanery
Examples
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"Do not," the Maestress continued, "let yourselves be caught up in her obvious chicanery."
Fiction book (2001) -
We won’t let her out because there’s a fear of chicanery.
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You, sir, were guilty of chicanery.
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I'm not gonna let this man die through any legal chicanery.
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He's got a history of such chicanery.
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The sad fact is, too many ordinary good people have been misled by this chicanery.
Blog text (14) -
"There is no place for chicanery at a time of war," said Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Blog text (9) -
If this is true, it makes the Enron chicanery of days past look positively Ewok-scaled in comparison.
Blog text (21) -
Accuse me of exposing political chicanery and the evils of the State and I will plead guilty.
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Wendell was facing jail time after a Ponzi scheme he'd cooked up threatened to unravel, exposing his chicanery.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
678
8.2
A secret plan to trick or cheat people
577
4.0
Deceiving someone to get money or an unfair advantage
187
2.1
An act of tricking someone to get an unfair advantage
66
4.6
Dishonest action meant to trick someone
53
7.7
A clever trick to deceive someone
52
8.6
A playful or dishonest trick that causes trouble
46
3.2
Actions like lying, cheating, or stealing
27
4.9
To use dishonest ways to cheat people
19
9.5
A trick or excuse to hide the real reason
15
2.8
An act of dishonesty that gives someone an unfair advantage
14
8.9
A trick used to deceive someone to get what you want
12
6.0
Secret dishonest actions that harm or make someone look bad, often in politics and business
11
8.1
A clever trick that deceives people or hides the truth
11
4.9
An unfair action meant to harm or cheat someone
11
7.8
Clever but dishonest way of acting that tricks people
9
7.1
An action or statement that hides the real reason behind something
8
8.6
Secret or dishonest actions that try to cheat people
2
7.0
Secret actions that are dishonest or unfair to get what you want
1
6.0
Doing things quietly to trick people without them noticing
1
8.7
Dishonest behaviour that aims to get money or other unfair personal gain
1
9.9
A trick done to cheat or fool people
1
9.8
Secret dishonest actions to get an unfair advantage
1
7.5
Behaving dishonestly by pretending one thing and doing another
1
6.3
An illegal plan to get money by tricking people
1
6.3
Dishonest behavior in business or money matters
1
7.2
A quality that makes something seem true when it is false
1
6.9
Dishonest behavior by a person or group
1
6.2
A quality of being clever and secretly using tricks to get what you want
1
9.7
Dishonest words or actions that try to trick people
1
9.5
A dishonest trick someone uses to get an advantage
1
7.1
Dishonest or sneaky behaviour to get what you want
Trickery to cheat people out of money
Actions that cheat people to get their money
Tricky or dishonest actions used to confuse people and gain advantage
A clever but dishonest plan to gain an advantage
A plan that uses dishonest tricks to get an unfair advantage
Dishonest actions that try to trick people
Antonyms
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word chicanery comes from the old French chicaner, which meant 'to argue' or 'to use small tricks', and the English word chicane keeps the idea of a clever dodge. So chicanery is the use of clever but dishonest tricks to get an advantage.