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. - 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. - 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. - 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.