chicanery

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

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

   Syn: Trickery; sophistry; stratagem.
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125 Moby Thesaurus words for "chicanery":
      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