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chicanery

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chi⋅can⋅er⋅y

  [shi-key-nuh-ree, chi-]
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–noun, plural -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.
Origin:
1605–15; < F chicanerie. See chicane, -ery

Synonyms:
1. fraud, deception, knavery. 2. evasion.
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chi·can·er·y   (shĭ-kā'nə-rē, chĭ-)   
n.  Deception by trickery or sophistry.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

chicanery 
1609, from Fr. chicanerie "trickery," from M.Fr. chicaner "to pettifog, quibble," perhaps from M.L.G. schikken "to arrange, bring about," or from the name of a golf-like game once played in Languedoc.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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