Word Meanings - CHICANERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam. Syn. -- Trickery; sophistry; stratagem.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHICANERY)

• Craft
• Art
• artifice
• cunning
• guile
• stratagem
• manoeuvre
• wiliness
• trickery
• duplicity
• chicanery
• intrigue
• underhandedness
• dodge
• Intrigue
• Cabal
• plot
• conspiracy
• machination
• design
• manoeuvres
• love affair
• amour
• ruse
• Roguery
• Trickery
• cheating
• swindling
• vagabondism
• mischief
• fraud
• knavery

Related words: (words related to CHICANERY)

• AMOUR PROPRE
  Self-love; self-esteem.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• CABALISM
  1. The secret science of the cabalists. 2. A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes. Emerson.
• WILINESS
  The quality or state of being wily; craftiness; cunning; guile.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• ROGUERY
  1. The life of a vargant. 2. The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden. 3. Arch tricks; mischievousness.
• SWINDLER
  One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
• DODGER
  1. One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices. Smart. 2. A small handbill. 3. See Corndodger.
• DODGE
  1. To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start. Milton. 2. To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. Some dodging casuist with
• KNAVERY
  Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak. 2. pl.
• CRAFTLESS
  Without craft or cunning. Helpless, craftless, and innocent people. Jer. Taylor.
• CUNNINGLY
  In a cunning manner; with cunning.
• INTRIGUER
  One who intrigues.
• OUTPARAMOUR
  To exceed in the number of mistresses. Shak.
• KINGCRAFT
  The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• DEFRAUD
  To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing
• WITCRAFT
  1. Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit. Camden. 2. The art of reasoning; logic.
• FLORAMOUR
  The plant love-lies-bleeding. Prior.