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Webster 1913 Edition

Chicanery

Chi-can′er-y

,

Noun.

[F.

chicanerie

.]

Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

Syn. – Trickery; sophistry; stratagem.

Webster 1828 Edition

Chicanery

CHICANERY

,

Noun.

Sophistry; mean or unfair artifices to perplex a cause and obscure the truth.

Definition 2025

chicanery

chicanery

English

Noun

chicanery ‎(countable and uncountable, plural chicaneries)

Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
(countable, law) A slick performance by a lawyer.

Translations

deception by use of trickery

Dutch: drogreden (nl), chikane, sofisme
Finnish: petos (fi), petkutus (fi), epärehellisyys (fi)
German: Täuschung (de) f Schikane (de) f, Täuschungsmanöver n

Irish: aisiléireacht f
Polish: krętactwo n, matactwo n
Russian: уло́вка (ru) f ‎(ulóvka)

A slick performance by a lawyer

Dutch: vals argument
Russian: крючкотворство (ru) n ‎(krjučkotvorstvo)

Synonyms

(deception): dishonesty, fraud, trickery, subterfuge

See also

(performance by a lawyer): Philadelphia lawyer