chicanery
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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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