Noun: chicanery shi'key-nu-ree
- 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