Tag: Chicanery

• Noun: Chicanery
  1. deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry
  2. a piece of sharp practice (as at law)
  3. a quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade.

•  Synonyms:
  1. trickery
  2. deception
  3. deceit
  4. deceitfulness
  5. duplicity
  6. dishonesty
  7. deviousness
  8. unscrupulousness
  9. underhandedness
  10. subterfuge
  11. fraud
  12. fraudulence
  13. swindling
  14. cheating
  15. duping
  16. hoodwinking;

• Usage:
  1. It was only by chicanery in the Supreme Court that Bush became President.

• Encountered:
  1. A news story somewhere…

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