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chicanery
/ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/
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shih-KAY-nuh-ree: ch sounds like sh.
The stressed vowel is the long a of “day.” The vowel after the n may be very short or disappear, making the last part sound like “nree.”
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“The investigation exposed years of financial chicanery.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does chicanery mean?
noun
- Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
- An individual act of trickery or deception.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (archaic) The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.
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/ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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How many small proprietors and manufacturers have not been ruined by large ones through chicanery, law-suits, and competition?
After the word chicanery there was a growing noise, half of murmurs and half of hisses, while four persons started up at once—Mr.
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Simple aggression and unrestrained violence in great measure gave place to shrewd practice and chicanery, as the best approved method of accumulating wealth.
Accordingly, they strove by every available device of chicanery to wheedle the Netherlanders into accepting their independence as a gift from the King of Spain.
Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by untruth, by injustice.