Synonyms for chicanery
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : shi-key-nuh-ree, chi- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʃɪˈkeɪ nə ri, tʃɪ- |
Top 10 synonyms for chicanery
Définition of chicanery
Origin :- c.1600, "legal quibbling, sophistry," from French chicanerie "trickery," from Middle French chicaner "to pettifog, quibble" (15c.), of unknown origin, perhaps from Middle Low German schikken "to arrange, bring about," or from the name of a golf-like game once played in Languedoc.
- noun deception, trickery
- The placard had indicated the possibility of chicanery on the part of McGuire.
- Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
- In a world of chicanery and treachery the sword alone cut clean.
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
- A delicate webwork of forgery, bribery, chicanery and falsehood.
- Extract from : « The Misplaced Battleship » by Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)
- Back in other days, a horse trade was often tinged with fraud and chicanery.
- Extract from : « David Lannarck, Midget » by George S. Harney
- In that case he must be prepared for her pursuit, her letters, her chicanery, which he could not bear.
- Extract from : « The Art of Disappearing » by John Talbot Smith
- You yourself have had many opportunities of seeing how incapable I am of deceit or chicanery.
- Extract from : « Poor Folk » by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- What further piece of chicanery had they been guilty of, I wondered?
- Extract from : « Hushed Up » by William Le Queux
- Poverty, bankruptcy, chicanery, crime were widespread and increasing.
- Extract from : « The Life of John Marshall Volume 4 of 4 » by Albert J. Beveridge
- The chicanery of the South Italians maddened and disgusted him.
- Extract from : « The Admiral » by Douglas Sladen
- I feel as light as a feather since I left all that chicanery behind!
- Extract from : « Life Of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3) » by Otto Jahn
Antonyms for chicanery
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