Antonyms for chicanery

Grammar : Noun

Spell : shi-key-nuh-ree, chi-

Phonetic Transcription : ʃɪˈkeɪ nə ri, tʃɪ-

Definition of chicanery

Origin : c.1600, "legal quibbling, sophistry," from French chicanerie "trickery," from Middle French chicaner "to pettifog, quibble" (15c.), of unknown origin, perhaps from Middle Low German schikken "to arrange, bring about," or from the name of a golf-like game once played in Languedoc.

noun deception, trickery

Example sentences :

The placard had indicated the possibility of chicanery on the part of McGuire.
Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs

In a world of chicanery and treachery the sword alone cut clean.
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

A delicate webwork of forgery, bribery, chicanery and falsehood.
Extract from : « The Misplaced Battleship » by Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)

Back in other days, a horse trade was often tinged with fraud and chicanery.
Extract from : « David Lannarck, Midget » by George S. Harney

In that case he must be prepared for her pursuit, her letters, her chicanery, which he could not bear.
Extract from : « The Art of Disappearing » by John Talbot Smith

You yourself have had many opportunities of seeing how incapable I am of deceit or chicanery.
Extract from : « Poor Folk » by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What further piece of chicanery had they been guilty of, I wondered?
Extract from : « Hushed Up » by William Le Queux

Poverty, bankruptcy, chicanery, crime were widespread and increasing.
Extract from : « The Life of John Marshall Volume 4 of 4 » by Albert J. Beveridge

The chicanery of the South Italians maddened and disgusted him.
Extract from : « The Admiral » by Douglas Sladen

I feel as light as a feather since I left all that chicanery behind!
Extract from : « Life Of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3) » by Otto Jahn

Synonyms for chicanery

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