chicanery
nounHow many syllables in chicanery?
There are 4 syllables in the word chicanery.How to pronounce chicanery:
Definition of chicanery:
- chicanery (noun):
- trickery or deception
- deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry trickery
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).
Synonyms for chicanery:
artfulness
artifice
cheating
chicane
crookedness
cunning
deceit
deceitfulness
deception
deceptiveness
deviousness
dishonesty
dissimulation
dodge
double-dealing
dupery
duplicity
fraud
fraudulence
gamesmanship
guile
hanky-panky
hoax
humbug
hypocrisy
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Antonyms for chicanery:
artlessness
avocation
benevolence
bluntness
candidness
candor
candour
certainty
constancy
decency
directness
discouragement
donation
entertainment
facing
fact
fairness
faithfulness
fidelity
forthrightness
frankness
genuineness
gift
good behavior
good behaviour
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Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- emanation
- benevolence
- isotony
- thought-provoking
- golgi-complex
- improviser
- felonious
- cryptographer
- unvarying
- fallacious
- sexualize
- operable
- collocation
- herky-jerky
- replenishing
- inhibitions
- Andolina
- Midianite
- eradicate
- convalescence
- exclamations
- interoffice
- malevolence
- lyricism
- levelheaded
- recrystallized
- amuse-gueule
- glorifying
- overpower
- immigrated
- auditory
- superimposed
- nonconformists
- deodorize
- visualise
- nanomachine
- alphabetize
- neurotmesis
- discouraging
- embellishment
- calculator
- separately
- adorable
- appreciate
- accompany
- rigatoni
- appropriate
- humility
- territory
- equations
- … more
Syllable Fun Fact
Ambisyllabicity occurs when a consonant at the boundary of two syllables belongs to both, as in the word 'happen'.
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