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chicanery

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An indictment of the sort of financial chicanery that eventually fueled the crash of 2008.

Fans of today adore the cheaters of the past, precisely because of their chicanery.

And the truth is that even if there's a little chicanery going on, the current compensation scheme is working brilliantly.

In 1500 the palace was the shrine of an artistic nobility; to-day it is a temple of chicanery.

The time will come, however, when old Virginia will stand trifling and chicanery no longer.

This substitution of chicanery in place of devastation takes place only in an uncertain degree.

To be defeated by rascality, by a clever turn of chicanery, never disturbed him—that was legitimate.

A goodly portion of my life has been spent in battling with superstition, credulity and chicanery in every form.

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On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chicanery, such as: dishonesty, duplicity, machination, stratagem, artifice, and cheating.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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