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Noun: chicanery  shi'key-nu-ree
  1. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
    - trickery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan

Derived forms: chicaneries

See also: chicane

Type of: deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation

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