All chicane synonyms
chiΒ·cane
C c noun chicane
- insidiousness β intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
- wiliness β full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
- song and dance β a story or statement, especially an untrue or misleading one designed to evade the matter at hand: Every time he's late, he gives me a song and dance about oversleeping.
- bamboozle β To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
- duping β duplicate.
- amour β An amour is a love affair, especially one which is kept secret.
- dalliance β If two people have a brief romantic relationship, you can say that they have a dalliance with each other, especially if they do not take it seriously.
- fling β to throw, cast, or hurl with force or violence: to fling a stone.
- flirtation β the act or practice of flirting; coquetry.
- liaison β the contact or connection maintained by communications between units of the armed forces or of any other organization in order to ensure concerted action, cooperation, etc.
- love affair β a romantic relationship or episode between lovers; an amour.
- mischief β conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
- monkey business β frivolous or mischievous behavior.
- romance β Music. a short, simple melody, vocal or instrumental, of tender character.
- shenanigans β Usually, shenanigans. mischief; prankishness: Halloween shenanigans. deceit; trickery.
- devilry β reckless or malicious fun or mischief
- funny business β improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
- hokey-pokey β hocus-pocus; trickery.
- knavery β action or practice characteristic of a knave.
- machinations β an act or instance of machinating.
- bait and switch β Bait and switch is used to refer to a sales technique in which goods are advertised at low prices in order to attract customers, although only a small number of the low-priced goods are available.
- manoeuvre β a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- ambidextrousness β The state or quality of being ambidextrous.
- pretence β pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
verb chicane
- shaft β a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- outwit β to get the better of by superior ingenuity or cleverness; outsmart: to outwit a dangerous opponent.
- gull β a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
- overreach β to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- jerk around β If you say that someone is jerking you around, you mean that they are not being honest with you about something.
- rope in β a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- make believe β the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- put on β a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- take in β the act of taking.
- play-act β to engage in make-believe.
- lead on β to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
- suck in β to draw into the mouth by producing a partial vacuum by action of the lips and tongue: to suck lemonade through a straw.
- set up β the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- take for a ride β to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- blow hot and cold β to vacillate
- hem and haw β the utterance or sound of βhem.β.
- split hairs β any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- nit-pick β to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.
- paralogize β to draw conclusions that do not follow logically from a given set of assumptions.
- set to β a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- talk back β the act of talking; speech; conversation, especially of a familiar or informal kind.
- victimise β to make a victim of.
- criticise β criticize
- quibble β an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.