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Word | Chicanery |
Turkish Meaning | şike, aldatma |
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) / Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth / trickery; deception / the use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose. / actions or statements that trick people into believing something that is not true : deception or trickery, | |
Usage | ⇒ He fell prey to political chicanery ⇒ Those sneaky lawyers misrepresented what occured, made up all sorts of impausible alternative scenarios to confuse the jurors, and in general depended on chicanery to win the case. ⇒ He wasn't above using chicanery to win votes. ⇒ an underhanded person who schemes corruption and political chicanery behind closed doors |
Synonyms | trickery, deception, duplicity, guile, deceit, chicane, double-dealing, artifice, cheating, fraud, hanky-panky, craft, dishonesty, sharp practice, subterfuge, wile, craftiness, knavery, underhandedness, deviousness, |
Antonyms | honesty, truthfulness, forthrightness, beauty, bluntness, candidness, candor, candour, comeliness, detachment, directness, earnestness, equity, fairness, faith, fidelity, flatness, frankness, freedom, genuineness, |
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