Chicanery
noun
The act of tricking someone by using dishonest methods.
She was known for her chicanery and deceit in the business world.
Often appears as...
- political chicanery
- financial chicanery
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
noun
The act of tricking someone by using dishonest methods.
She was known for her chicanery and deceit in the business world.
Often appears as...
- political chicanery
- financial chicanery
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Often Negative
Chicanery usually implies negative judgment and is considered unethical.
The lawyer's chicanery led to a mistrial.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Tricks
Chicanery refers to clever, subtle schemes or deception, not obvious lies.
He used chicanery to outwit his competitors.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Contexts
Chicanery is often discussed in contexts involving politics, business, or finance.
The report unveiled chicanery in campaign financing.
Pro Tip 1/3Often Negative
Chicanery usually implies negative judgment and is considered unethical.
The lawyer's chicanery led to a mistrial.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Tricks
Chicanery refers to clever, subtle schemes or deception, not obvious lies.
He used chicanery to outwit his competitors.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Contexts
Chicanery is often discussed in contexts involving politics, business, or finance.
The report unveiled chicanery in campaign financing.
Pro Tip 1/3Often Negative
Chicanery usually implies negative judgment and is considered unethical.
The lawyer's chicanery led to a mistrial.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Tricks
Chicanery refers to clever, subtle schemes or deception, not obvious lies.
He used chicanery to outwit his competitors.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Contexts
Chicanery is often discussed in contexts involving politics, business, or finance.
The report unveiled chicanery in campaign financing.
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Eric Mead: The magic of...
why you don't notice there are only three fingers down here, because the mind, and the way it processes information, it doesn't count, one, two, three. It groups them. But that's not really what this is about. Right? And then I open my hand up. Obviously it's clinging there, not by animal magnetism, but by chicanery,
Video examples
Eric Mead: The magic of...
why you don't notice there are only three fingers down here, because the mind, and the way it processes information, it doesn't count, one, two, three. It groups them. But that's not really what this is about. Right? And then I open my hand up. Obviously it's clinging there, not by animal magnetism, but by chicanery,
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Quote examples
Eric Alterman
American Writer
Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.
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Alex Pareene
American Writer
If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing sphere, I would read the absolute heck out of it.
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Angela Merkel
German Statesman
During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened.
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William Whipple
American Politician
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.
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Asif Kapadia
British Director
The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.
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Mike Farrell
American Actor
It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?
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John Adams
American President
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Ouida
English Novelist
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Quote examples
Eric Alterman
American Writer
Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.
Quote examples
Alex Pareene
American Writer
If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing sphere, I would read the absolute heck out of it.
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Angela Merkel
German Statesman
During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened.
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William Whipple
American Politician
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.
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Asif Kapadia
British Director
The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.
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Mike Farrell
American Actor
It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?
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John Adams
American President
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Ouida
English Novelist
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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