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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for chicanery:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
chicanery
    n 1: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
         money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane,
         guile, wile, shenanigan]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chicanery \Chi*can"er*y\, n. [F. chicanerie.]
   Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the
   truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
   [1913 Webster]

         Irritated by perpetual chicanery.        --Hallam.

   Syn: Trickery; sophistry; stratagem.
        [1913 Webster]
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