Crossword-Solution: CHICANERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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”
| Clue | Answers |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.
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 …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, WP.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1971–2020).