chicanery

  • 21chicanery — noun the use of trickery to achieve one s purpose …

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  • 22chicanery — n. Trickery, duplicity, chicane, sophistry, sophistication, deception, intrigue, intriguing, wire pulling, stratagems, wiles, tergiversation …

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  • 23chicanery — n fraud, fraudulency, deceit, deception, chicane, duplicity, guile, double dealing, Sl. monkey business, Sl. dipsy doodle; trickery, gulling, knavery, rascality, hoodwinking, duping, hoaxing, befooling; dishonesty, falseness, humbuggery, artifice …

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  • 24chicanery — chi·ca·nery …

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  • 25chicanery — UK [ʃɪˈkeɪnərɪ] / US noun [uncountable] formal the use of clever, unfair, or dishonest methods to trick people, especially in legal matters …

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  • 26chicanery — chi•can•er•y [[t]ʃɪˈkeɪ nə ri, tʃɪ [/t]] n. pl. er•ies 1) the use of sly or evasive language, reasoning, etc. to trick or deceive 2) a tricky or deceitful maneuver; subterfuge • Etymology: 1605–15; < F chicanerie …

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  • 27chicanery — /ʃəˈkeɪnəri / (say shuh kaynuhree) noun (plural chicaneries) 1. legal trickery, quibbling, or sophistry. 2. a quibble or subterfuge …

  • 28chicanery — Trickery; fraud of which the law takes cognizance where damage caused thereby to another …

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  • 29chicanery — n. (pl. ies) 1 clever but misleading talk; a false argument. 2 trickery, deception. Etymology: F chicanerie (as CHICANE) …

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  • 30legal chicanery — index bunko Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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