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chicanery

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9 lettersPronunciation /ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/Part of speech nounSorted accehinryStarts with CEnds with Y0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Word origin

From French chicanerie (“trickery”), from chicaner, from Middle French chicaner, borrowed from Middle Low German schicken, from Old Saxon *skikkian, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan (“to order, arrange”).

Used in a sentence

  • They do not always find manors, got by rapine or chicanery, insensibly to melt away, as the poets will have it; or that all gold glides, like thawing snow, from the thief’s hand that grasps it.

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