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What does chicanery mean?

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Noun
  1. Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
  2. (countable, law) A slick performance by a lawyer.
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The remark was not brought on by some thieving or chicanery on my part, but rather by a political speech I'd made that this person didn't like.
Computer experts at respected universities have sounded the alarm over the potential for high-tech chicanery.
The human mind cannot tolerate the spectre of waste presented by the possibility of chicanery without detection.
Indulge at length your preoccupation with lying, bullying, malice, chicanery, duplicity and revenge.
The two schemers fall for each other but there's a lot of revenge-fuelled chicanery before love wins through.
He, on the other hand, loves the intrigue, the subtle manipulation, the backstairs chicanery, and there's no one better to convey it.

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