All chicanery synonyms

noun chicanery

• stratagem — a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy.
• machination — an act or instance of machinating.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• furtiveness — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• maneuver — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
• devious — If you describe someone as devious you do not like them because you think they are dishonest and like to keep things secret, often in a complicated way.
• ploy — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
• plot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
• feint — a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
• cheating — an instance of rule-breaking
• sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
• subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
• ruse — a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
• gambit — Chess. an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
• intrigue — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
• skullduggery — skulduggery.
• wiles — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
• chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
• hanky-panky — unethical behavior; deceit: When the bank teller bought an expensive car and house, they suspected there might be some hanky-panky going on.
• underhandedness — underhand.
• sharp practice — You can use sharp practice to refer to an action or a way of behaving, especially in business or professional matters, that you think is clever but dishonest.
• surreptitious — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• smoke and mirrors — (used with a singular or plural verb) something that distorts or blurs facts, figures, etc., like a magic or conjuring trick; artful deception.
• verbiage — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
• talk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• waffle — waffling language.
• hot air — empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing: His report on the company's progress was just so much hot air.
• nonsense — words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
• manoeuvre — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.