chicanery
/ʃɪˈkeɪnɝi/
the use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose
chicanery in a sentence
“The contract was full of legal chicanery designed to confuse.”
Origin of chicanery
French chicaner to quibble, possibly from Middle Low German schikken to arrange
Related Words
subterfuge
deceit used to achieve one's goal; a stratagem used to deceive
canard
an unfounded rumor or story
sophistry
the use of clever but false arguments, especially to deceive
calumny
the making of false and defamatory statements about someone
slander
the action of making false spoken statements damaging to a person's reputation
perjury
the offense of willfully telling an untruth after taking an oath