chicanery
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nə noun, plural chi·can·er·ies.
1.
trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry: He resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the job.
2.
a quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade.
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| —n , pl -eries | |
| 1. | verbal deception or trickery, esp in legal quibbling; dishonest or sharp practice |
| 2. | a trick, deception, or quibble |
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chicanery
1609, from Fr. chicanerie "trickery," from M.Fr. chicaner "to pettifog, quibble" (15c.), perhaps from M.L.G. schikken "to arrange, bring about," or from the name of a golf-like game once played in Languedoc.
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Example sentences
Instead of honest, professionally built relationships, office politicians build relationships through deceit and chicanery.
The struggle between these faction is marked by pleasingly intricate chicanery.
The cut-off is arbitrary, and leads to much accounting chicanery.
Such chicanery can only be inferred through conjecture and speculation, which are not acceptable bases for finding a conspiracy.
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