Meaning & use
chicanery
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The use of trickery or deceptive tactics, especially to achieve a political, legal, or financial goal.
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The company's collapse was blamed on years of financial chicanery.
Voters grew tired of the chicanery surrounding the election results.
A note on using this word
Chicanery implies clever, often complicated deception rather than simple lying, and is common in discussions of politics, law, and business.
Words with a similar meaning
deceptiontrickery
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Words with an opposite meaning
honesty
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