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English Dictionary: chicanery by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chicanery
n
  1. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
    Synonym(s): trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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