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chicanenoun the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an endmost get-rich-quick schemes involve more than a smidgen of chicane artifice, chicanery, gamesmanship, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, trickery, wile artfulness, caginess(also cageyness), craftiness, cunning, deviousness, foxiness, oiliness, shadiness, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, treachery, underhandedness, wilinesscrookedness, crookery, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, guile, guilefulness, hypocrisy, insincerityfakery, humbuggery, imposture, quackerydirty pool, dirty tricksdesign, plotting, scheming, secrecy, stealth artlessness, forthrightness, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sinceritycandidness, candor, directness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness to use dishonest methods to achieve a goala lawyer who is so notorious for chicaning that the guilty invariably seek his services cheat, finagle, fudge cribcolor, distort, falsify, misinterpret, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warpdoctor, fake, tamper (with)elaborate, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, magnify, pad, stretchdodge, evade, hedge ca. 1672 |