Hypertext Webster Gateway: "chicanery"
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) 1.7 (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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