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Noun: chicanery  shi'key-nu-ree
  1. The use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose
    "The lawyer's chicanery in manipulating evidence was grounds for disbarment";
    - trickery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan

Derived forms: chicaneries

Type of: deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation

Encyclopedia: Chicanery