chicanery
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) • Syn: trickery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan • Derivationally related forms: wily (for: wile), chicane (for: chicane), chicane, trick (for: trickery) • Hypernyms: deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation • Hyponyms: fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on, jugglery
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