chicanery
8
9.3
- noun
- /ʃɪˈkeɪnəri/
- Formal
- 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
720
8.2
A secret plan to trick or cheat people
607
4.0
Deceiving someone to get money or an unfair advantage
75
2.1
An act of tricking someone to get an unfair advantage
65
4.6
Dishonest action meant to trick someone
60
7.7
A clever trick to deceive someone
51
8.6
A playful or dishonest trick that causes trouble
43
3.2
Actions like lying, cheating, or stealing
26
4.9
To use dishonest ways to cheat people
22
6.0
Secret dishonest actions that harm or make someone look bad, often in politics and business
19
9.5
A trick or excuse to hide the real reason
15
8.6
Secret or dishonest actions that try to cheat people
12
4.9
An unfair action meant to harm or cheat someone
12
8.9
A trick used to deceive someone to get what you want
12
7.1
An action or statement that hides the real reason behind something
10
8.1
A clever trick that deceives people or hides the truth
10
7.8
Clever but dishonest way of acting that tricks people
7
2.8
An act of dishonesty that gives someone an unfair advantage
2
7.0
Secret actions that are dishonest or unfair to get what you want
2
9.5
A dishonest trick someone uses to get an advantage
2
9.9
A trick done to cheat or fool people
2
7.5
Behaving dishonestly by pretending one thing and doing another
2
6.0
Doing things quietly to trick people without them noticing
1
9.8
Secret dishonest actions to get an unfair advantage
1
6.3
An illegal plan to get money by tricking people
1
8.7
Dishonest behaviour that aims to get money or other unfair personal gain
1
6.9
Dishonest behavior by a person or group
1
6.3
Dishonest behavior in business or money matters
1
6.2
A quality of being clever and secretly using tricks to get what you want
1
7.1
Dishonest or sneaky behaviour to get what you want
1
9.9
Dishonest actions that try to trick people
1
9.7
Dishonest words or actions that try to trick people
1
7.2
A quality that makes something seem true when it is false
1
6.3
A clever but dishonest plan to gain an advantage
1
9.5
Actions that cheat people to get their money
1
9.9
Tricky or dishonest actions used to confuse people and gain advantage
Trickery to cheat people out of money
A plan that uses dishonest tricks to get an unfair advantage
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.