Definition for Chicanery:

• Sophistry, sharp practice; originally, dispute over the game of mall; then, over lawsuits.

Synonyms for Chicanery:

• n.

  •
  • foul play,
  • misconduct,
  • smoke and mirrors,
  • duplicity.
  •
  • honest.
  •act (noun)
  • wile,
  • shenanigan,
  • chicanery.
  •artifice (noun)
  • wilinesses.
  •casuistry (noun)
  • over subtleness,
  • oversubtlenesses,
  • over-subtleness,
  • over-subtlenesses,
  • over subtlenesses,
  • deceptivenesses.
  •cheat (noun)
  • bill goods,
  • cozenings,
  • shady deals,
  • buncos,
  • fast shuffles,
  • fast ones,
  • bamboozlements,
  • puton,
  • hoaxings.
  •deceit (noun)
  • dirty dealings,
  • dis semblances,
  • mis-representations,
  • dis-semblance,
  • defraudings,
  • dis-simulation,
  • dis-semblances,
  • smoke mirrors,
  • entrappings,
  • twofacedness,
  • pre-tense,
  • ambidextrousnesses,
  • fraudulences,
  • dissimulations,
  • over reaching,
  • mis-representation,
  • dis-simulations,
  • dis simulations,
  • mis representations,
  • dis semblance,
  • pre tenses,
  • two facedness,
  • mis representation,
  • pre tense,
  • overreachings,
  • dis simulation,
  • over-reaching.
  •deception (noun)
  • study at deception,
  • sophistry,
  • cheating.
  •deception, trickery (noun)
  • furtiveness,
  • deviousness,
  • double-crossing,
  • machination,
  • gambit,
  • plot,
  • sharp practice,
  • dodge,
  • ploy,
  • stratagem,
  • maneuver,
  • fourberie,
  • surreptitiousness,
  • ruse,
  • wiles.
  •decoy (noun)
  • nark,
  • sitting duck,
  • shills,
  • comeon,
  • blow off,
  • drawing card,
  • narks,
  • ensnarement,
  • Seducement,
  • shill.
  •delusion (noun)
  • fool paradise,
  • selfdeceptions,
  • self deceptions,
  • mis takes,
  • eidolons,
  • mis apprehensions,
  • self deception,
  • mis apprehension,
  • over sights,
  • over-sights,
  • self-deceptions,
  • mis-take,
  • mis-apprehensions,
  • selfdeception,
  • over-sight,
  • fools paradise,
  • over sight,
  • eidola,
  • mis-takes,
  • mis take,
  • mis-apprehension.
  •device (noun)
  • cunningnesses,
  • de signs,
  • pro positions,
  • de sign,
  • de-signs,
  • de-sign,
  • clever moves,
  • pro position,
  • pro-positions.
  •dirt (noun)
  • lubricities,
  • Lubricity,
  • smut.
  •dishonesty (noun)
  • crookedness,
  • Improbity,
  • unscrupulousness,
  • treachery,
  • immorality,
  • corruption,
  • insincerity,
  • traitorousness,
  • prevarication,
  • deceitfulness,
  • feloniousness.
  •double-dealing (noun)
  • doubledealing,
  • bad faiths.
  •duplicity (noun)
  • oneupmanship,
  • stab back,
  • judas kisses,
  • one upmanship,
  • twonesses.
  •foxiness (noun)
  • slicknesses,
  • canninesses,
  • caginesses.
  •fraud (noun)
  • duperies,
  • swindlings,
  • hoodwinkings,
  • song dance,
  • dupings,
  • barratries.
  •guile (noun)
  • stab the back.
  •hanky-panky (noun)
  • hankie pankie,
  • mis chiefs,
  • hankiepankies,
  • hankypanky,
  • mis chief,
  • sexual activities,
  • hankie pankies,
  • hokey pokeys,
  • hankie-pankies,
  • hokeypokeys,
  • funny businesses,
  • hokey pokey,
  • hokey-pokeys,
  • mis-chiefs,
  • fooling arounds,
  • hankiepankie,
  • mis-chief.
  •hocus-pocus (noun)
  • mummery,
  • Hocus,
  • Occultism,
  • magic words,
  • Mummeries,
  • incantation,
  • gobbledegook,
  • magic word,
  • Hocuspocus,
  • nonsense.
  •sleight of hand (noun)
  • legerdemain,
  • conjurations,
  • conjuration,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • escamotage.
  •trick (noun)
  • dis guises,
  • dis-guise,
  • dis-guises,
  • dis guise.
  •trickery (noun)
  • bait and switches,
  • bait switches,
  • razzledazzle,
  • bait switch,
  • razzle dazzles,
  • razzle dazzle,
  • bait and switch,
  • razzle-dazzles,
  • razzledazzles.
  •underhandedness (noun)
  • under-handedness,
  • under-handednesses,
  • under handedness,
  • under handednesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • indirection,
  • deception.
  •promotion
  • logrolling.

Antonyms for Chicanery:

• n.

  • deception, trickery
    honesty, openness, truthfulness, forthrightness.
  • Other antonyms:
    candidness, directness, guilelessness, candor, plainness, ingenuousness, artlessness, sincerity, plainspokenness.

Chicanery Sentence Examples:

• Earl Skule, on his side, opened a campaign of intriguing and chicanery, in which he was faithfully supported by the new archbishop, Guttorm, and the canons of the cathedral chapter in Nidaros.

• He was a master mind in finance and chicanery.

Hypernym for Chicanery:

• n.

  • act
    fraud, fraudulence, hoax, put-on, jugglery, dupery, humbug.

Hyponym for Chicanery:

• n.

  • act
    deception, dissembling, dissimulation, deceit.