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2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: chicanery n : the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) [syn: {trickery}, {guile}, {wile}, {shenanigan}]
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