Word of the Day:
chicanery
What It Means
Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
An individual act of trickery or deception.
The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.
Chicanery in Context
“He covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy!”
Did You Know?
From French chicanerie (“trickery”), from chicaner, from Middle French chicaner, borrowed from Middle Low German schicken, from Old Saxon *skikkian, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan (“to order, arrange”). Related to German schicken (“to send, ship”), Middle English skekken (“to send forth, issue”).
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