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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.

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  • 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.

 

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