Crossword-Solution: CHICANERY 9 letters, 136 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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Word Word Type Definition
Chicanery n. Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure
the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

We have 136 clues for the answer “CHICANERY”

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Subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade 1 answer
legal trickery 1 answer
Deceitful doings 2 answers
Underhand doings 2 answers
underhand dealing 5 answers
fourberie 7 answers
Sharp practice. 8 answers
Wiliness 10 answers
Funny business 12 answers
Double-dealing 16 answers
Craftiness 21 answers
sophistry 24 answers
Shrewdness 25 answers
machination 36 answers
Intrigue 45 answers
misdemeanour 56 answers
deceitfulness 57 answers
deviousness 57 answers
perfidiousness 57 answers
sanctimoniousness 57 answers
sycophancy 57 answers
Unctuousness 58 answers
affectedness 58 answers
cozenage 58 answers
dupery 58 answers
shuffling 58 answers
simulation 59 answers
untruthfulness 59 answers
Lechery 60 answers
Prevarication 60 answers
Falsification 60 answers
showmanship 60 answers
unreliability 60 answers
atrociousness 61 answers
monstrousness 61 answers
faithlessness 61 answers
insincerity 61 answers
heinousness 62 answers
profiteering 62 answers
artificiality 62 answers
Nepotism 63 answers
Villainy 63 answers
barbarity 63 answers
brutality 63 answers
crookedness 63 answers
jobbery 63 answers
malignance 63 answers
malignancy 63 answers
sinfulness 63 answers
venality 63 answers
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CHICANERY (5)

Yet we have so insisted upon the probity of our position as opposed to Railroad chicanery, that I believe it advisable to quell this distant suspicion at once; to publish a denial of these rumoured charges would only be to give them too much importance.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
Directors of theatres and concert halls, furious to see a part of their public tempted away, raised the cry of immorality against the new-comers, and called to their aid every resource of law and chicanery.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008
How many small proprietors and manufacturers have not been ruined by large ones through chicanery, law-suits, and competition? Strategy, violence, and usury,--such are the proprietor's methods of plundering the laborer.
What is Property? P. J. Proudhon 1995
Charity and all the other forms of chicanery by which the many are defrauded and fooled by the few--those "virtues" he understood and practiced.
The Grain Of Dust David Graham Phillips 2004
Such a match was fitter and far more creditable for a spirited young fellow than a marriage with the daughter of an old Whig lawyer, whose chicanery had so nearly ruined his father.” The other party, of course, laying out of view the opposition which the Master of Ravenswood received from Miss Ashton’s family, cried shame upon his fickleness and perfidy, as if he had seduced the young lady into an engagement, and wilfully and causelessly abandoned her for another.
The Bride of Lammermoor Sir Walter Scott 1996

Quotes with CHICANERY (3)

[R]eligion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man.
Will Durant Our Oriental Heritage
Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.
John Adams
Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, the conscience-killing tyranny of Rome! We have not far to seek for an evidence of it. There's Father Newman to wit: one living specimen is worth a hundred dead ones. He, a Priest writing of Priests, tells us that lying is never any harm.'I interpose: 'You are taking a most extraordinary liberty with my name. If I have said this, tell me when and where.'Mr Kingsley replies: 'You …
John Henry Newman Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Where this answer appears

Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, WP.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1971–2020).