Definition for Chicanery:

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

Synonyms for Chicanery:

• n.

  •
  • foul play,
  • duplicity.
  •act (noun)
  • wile,
  • shenanigan.
  •deception (noun)
  • sophistry,
  • cheating.
  •deception, trickery (noun)
  • furtiveness,
  • deviousness,
  • double-crossing,
  • machination,
  • gambit,
  • plot,
  • sharp practice,
  • dodge,
  • ploy,
  • stratagem,
  • maneuver,
  • fourberie,
  • surreptitiousness,
  • ruse,
  • wiles.
  •dishonesty (noun)
  • crookedness,
  • Improbity,
  • unscrupulousness,
  • treachery,
  • immorality,
  • corruption,
  • insincerity,
  • traitorousness,
  • prevarication,
  • deceitfulness,
  • feloniousness.
  •hocus-pocus (noun)
  • nonsense.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • indirection,
  • deception.
  •Other relevant words:
  • bilk,
  • bag of tricks,
  • KNavishness,
  • snare,
  • dirty work,
  • flimflam,
  • naughtiness,
  • fakery,
  • drive,
  • gravel,
  • Phariseeism,
  • concealment,
  • equivocation,
  • skill,
  • fiddle,
  • quiddity,
  • legerdemain,
  • Scoundrelism,
  • eject,
  • design,
  • manslaughter,
  • sleight,
  • pretence,
  • confidence trick,
  • falseness,
  • damage,
  • goings-on,
  • convey,
  • crime,
  • paltering,
  • contrivance,
  • cog,
  • hairsplitting,
  • hedging,
  • nitpicking,
  • antics,
  • sanctimoniousness,
  • googly,
  • sophistication,
  • tomfoolery,
  • paltry,
  • sanctimony,
  • gimmick,
  • strategy,
  • jugglery,
  • falsehood,
  • fetch,
  • monkey business,
  • jape,
  • hoax,
  • beat,
  • Pharisaism,
  • emit,
  • prestidigitation,
  • dodging,
  • quackery,
  • joker,
  • practical joke,
  • misrepresentation,
  • bickering,
  • perfidiousness,
  • flummox,
  • shuffling,
  • turpitude,
  • expire,
  • scheme,
  • confidence game,
  • shuffle,
  • extend,
  • doubling,
  • speciousness,
  • conjuration,
  • shrewdness,
  • two-facedness,
  • jiggery-pokery,
  • charlatanism,
  • perfidy,
  • mendacity,
  • conjure,
  • dumbfound,
  • Fudging,
  • lying,
  • mischievousness,
  • vileness,
  • villainy,
  • jobbery,
  • wheeze,
  • steal,
  • villainousness,
  • mystification,
  • shift,
  • Charlatanry,
  • carping,
  • move,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • contract,
  • rip off,
  • devilry,
  • dirty deal,
  • Captiousness,
  • chouse,
  • special pleading,
  • caviling,
  • Prestigiation,
  • tactic,
  • tartuffery,
  • earn,
  • deliver,
  • develop,
  • conspiracy,
  • play on words,
  • roguery,
  • juggle,
  • sidestepping,
  • shenanigans,
  • humbug,
  • Thimblerigging,
  • imposture,
  • excuse,
  • incur,
  • swizz,
  • double-talk,
  • circumvention,
  • devilment,
  • rascality,
  • quibbling,
  • get,
  • grift,
  • gyp,
  • generate,
  • collusion,
  • manoeuvre,
  • Ingannation,
  • Pettifoggery,
  • curve ball,
  • degradation,
  • conjuring,
  • art,
  • mischief,
  • con,
  • catch,
  • Jockeyship,
  • bluff,
  • fencing,
  • expedient,
  • Gullery,
  • injury,
  • trepan,
  • cozenage,
  • Coggery,
  • Defrauding,
  • Covin,
  • craft,
  • Dodgery,
  • evasiveness,
  • father,
  • pussyfooting,
  • coup,
  • moral turpitude,
  • homicide,
  • juggling,
  • swizzle,
  • jesuitry,
  • scam,
  • deacon,
  • supercherie,
  • Reprobacy,
  • nit-picking,
  • Paralogy,
  • tergiversation,
  • perversion,
  • Swindling,
  • acquire,
  • artfulness,
  • skulduggery,
  • Humbuggery,
  • game,
  • foolishness,
  • racket,
  • word sense,
  • red herring,
  • connivance,
  • bosey,
  • pass,
  • baseness,
  • roguishness,
  • shifting,
  • stack the deck,
  • blind,
  • sham,
  • curve,
  • experience,
  • cunning,
  • pettifogging,
  • murder,
  • ficelle,
  • Boggling,
  • above,
  • magic,
  • gamesmanship,
  • harm,
  • Parrying.

Antonyms for Chicanery:

• n.

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

Hypernym for Chicanery:

• n.

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

Hyponym for Chicanery:

• n.

  • act
    deception, dissembling, dissimulation, deceit.