Chicanery

Word CHICANERY
Character 9
Hyphenation chi can er y
Pronunciations /ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/

Definitions and meanings of "Chicanery"

What do we mean by chicanery?

Deception by trickery or sophistry. noun

Chicane; mean or petty artifices; trickery; sophistry. noun

Synonyms Quibbling, stratagem, duplicity. noun

Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. noun

Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge. noun

A slick performance by a lawyer. noun

The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) noun

Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

A slick performance by a lawyer.

Deception by trickery or sophistry. A trick; a subterfuge. Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) Urban Dictionary

It's a place where Chicanos (mexican-americans) go to school to learn trades. Urban Dictionary

What you accuse your brother of when you find out he hid a battery in your coat. Urban Dictionary

The use of deceptive or underhanded tactics. May also describe the act of defecating through a sunroof Urban Dictionary

Better Call Saul or Breaking Bad media is known as 'Chicanery' The actual word means lies or deception Urban Dictionary

Hybrid term melding "shabby chic" and "chicanery." shabby chic: a style using worn and deteriorated items to achieve an elegant overall effect chicanery: trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry Shabby chicanery: Constant failed attempts at using second-hand items in one's home decor to achieve a look of false elegance. Result is invariably much more Salvation Army than Apres-La-Guerre. Urban Dictionary

An act of deception that is attended to mislead or trick an individual. Urban Dictionary

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The word "chicanery" in example sentences

This kind of chicanery is what gets you thrown in prison if a private business does it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the notion that Wall Street somehow has a monopoly on "disastrous chicanery" is laughable, as big corporate scandals from a few years ago -- Tyco, Adelphia, Enron, WorldCom -- make clear. ❋ Yvette Kantrow (2010)

All I notice is that these experts in chicanery are vying for jobs at BP. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)

This sort of constitutional chicanery is really not how we ought to conduct our Parliamentary affairs and I am quite sure that we need no lessons in democracy and the parliamentary process from a country like Germany whose democracy is but sixty years old. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What deals, games and other chicanery is going on in this leak investigation? ❋ Unknown (2005)

As if that chicanery is not horrible enough, now those bringing the truth to the surface, as Carson Fire puts it, are being made to look like “meanies”. ❋ Unknown (2005)

After the word chicanery there was a growing noise, half of murmurs and half of hisses, while four persons started up at once -- Mr. Hawley, ❋ Unknown (1871)

After the word chicanery there was a growing noise, half of murmurs and half of hisses, while four persons started up at once -- Mr. Hawley, Mr. Toller, Mr. Chichely, and Mr. Hackbutt; but Mr. Hawley's outburst was instantaneous, and left the others behind in silence. ❋ Unknown (1871)

This sort of pseudo-religious chicanery is bit’s stock in trade. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That added with a few other situations, including what some on my side still call chicanery, ensured the election of George W. Bush. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The chicanery is the willful conflation of these questions with the real-world question that should guide policy making:Are the benefits of removing Saddam from power greater than the costs, in lives and dollars, of removing him? ❋ Unknown (2004)

The French ambassador is going to give me his vise [i.e. the French term for "visa"] of my passport through France after repeated applications in Paris, but this is subject to all manner of chicanery, which is disgusting to me, and must be got out of the way, so that in future I may be able to pass without difficulty and at any time through and into France. ❋ Tr (1888)

Congress was not set up to deal with this kind of chicanery which is why they are so inept at it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

More mistakes … more chicanery - in other words, just what you'd expect. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This kind of chicanery has a rather long and inglorious past in politics so it was refreshing to see a senior figure in Alistair Campbell come out and talk about his own experiences and call for an end to the ban on sectioning prohibiting somebody for standing to be an MP. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Andrew Ross Sorkin, writing in The New York Times Dealbook, speculated that the big surprise would be that such "chicanery" was documented "and that regulators haven't found it yet -- or worse, they found it and did nothing about it." ❋ Phil Trupp (2010)

People like Ken Ham are clearly aware of the lucrative market in the US for his kind of chicanery and profiteering off religious fear. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[The Bush] [Administration] is now the commander-in-theif (lower-case [intentional]) thanks to their chicanery. ❋ Peter Drumm (2004)

he went to a chicanery and [learned] how to [fix] [cars]. ❋ Marvin A (2006)

[Jimmy] pulled this [chicanery]! He defecated through a [sunroof]! ❋ Grease_of_sandwich (2021)

" You think this is something? You think this is bad? This, this [chicanery]? [He's done] [worse]. ❋ TheOtherPseudonymusBosch (2022)

I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers. I knew it was [1216]. One after [Magna Carta]. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This [chicanery]? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! *He* orchestrated it! Jimmy! He *defecated* through a *[sunroof]*! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I *thinking*? He'll never change. He'll *never* change! Ever since he was 9, *always* the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious *Jimmy*! Stealing them blind! And *HE* gets to be a lawyer? What a [sick joke]! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! ❋ Oneaftermagnacarta1216 (2022)

Another [broke down] [La-Z-Boy]? Enough with the shabby chicanery, [already]. ❋ Tom Terranova (2007)

[Professor] [Davis's] [test] was Bullshit - Chicanery, not of the students pass. ❋ ShadownKnuckles (2017)

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