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chicanery
[ shi-key-nuh-ree, chi- ]
noun
- trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry:
He resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the job.
Synonyms: , ,
- a quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade.
Synonyms:
chicanery
/ ʃɪˈ°ì±ðɪ²ÔÉ™°ùɪ /
noun
- verbal deception or trickery, esp in legal quibbling; dishonest or sharp practice
- a trick, deception, or quibble
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of chicanery1
Example Sentences
In retrospect, the “Conor†moment in the Oval Office on March 12 looks like a set-up — or, more to the point, like a devious and especially petty work of MAGA-world chicanery.
Predictably, House Speaker Mike Johnson chimed in with his own false election claims, asserting that Republicans lost three California House seats in November because of vote-counting chicanery.
Adopting any cat should not require exploiting a connection, a studious application of loopholes and other chicanery.
Politicians had to "stop insulting your intelligence with the chicanery of easy answers, when that is exactly how we got into this mess in the first place", he said.
Somehow the easy ones were allegations of Russian collusion somehow related to Hunter Biden's laptop and supposed ballot box chicanery.
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