Associations to the word «Chicanery»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

CHICANERY, noun. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn