Definition of Chicanery

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Definition of Chicanery
	Chicanery Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Related Definitions: And, Artifice, Cause, Mean, Obscure, Or, Perplex, Practice, Sharp, Sophistry, Stratagem, The, To, Truth, Unfair

Chicanery Quotations

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
William Whipple

It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'
Mike Farrell

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida

Chicanery Translations

chicanery in French is tracasserie
chicanery in German is Schikane
chicanery in Italian is vessazione

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