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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHICANERY, n. Sophistry; mean or unfair artifices to perplex a cause and obscure the truth.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -neries) Date: 1609 1. deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry ; trickery 2. a piece of sharp practice (as at law) ; trick

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Chicanery Chi*can"er*y, n. [F. chicanerie.] Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Irritated by perpetual chicanery. --Hallam. Syn: Trickery; sophistry; stratagem.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(chicaneries) Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people. (FORMAL) = trickery N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Trickery, duplicity, chicane, sophistry, sophistication, deception, intrigue, intriguing, wire-pulling, stratagems, wiles, tergiversation.

Moby Thesaurus

art, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, baseness, bickering, blind, bluff, boggling, bosey, captiousness, catch, caviling, cheating, chicane, chouse, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, covin, craft, curve, curve-ball, cute trick, deceit, deception, degradation, design, device, deviousness, dirty deal, dirty trick, dishonesty, dodge, dodgery, dodging, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, expedient, fakement, fast deal, feint, fencing, fetch, ficelle, foul play, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, game, gimmick, googly, grift, hairsplitting, hanky-panky, hedging, hocus-pocus, intrigue, joker, juggle, jugglery, knavery, knavishness, little game, logic-chopping, machination, maneuver, moral turpitude, move, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pass, pettifoggery, pettifogging, plot, ploy, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, racket, rascality, rascalry, red herring, reprobacy, roguery, roguishness, ruse, scampishness, scheme, scoundrelism, scurvy trick, sharp practice, shift, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, skulduggery, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, sophistry, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, supercherie, surreptitiousness, tactic, tergiversation, trichoschistism, trick, trickery, turpitude, underhand dealing, underhandedness, vileness, villainousness, villainy, wile, wily device