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

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway