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chicane

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of chicane

the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end

most get-rich-quick schemes involve more than a smidgen of chicane

Synonyms of chicane

artifice, chicanery, gamesmanship, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, trickery, wile

Words Related to chicane

artfulness, caginess (also cageyness), craftiness, cunning, deviousness, foxiness, oiliness, shadiness, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, treachery, underhandedness, wiliness

crookedness, crookery, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, guile, guilefulness, hypocrisy, insincerity

fakery, humbuggery, imposture, quackery

dirty pool, dirty tricks

design, plotting, scheming, secrecy, stealth

Near Antonyms of chicane

artlessness, forthrightness, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity

candidness, candor, directness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness

chicane

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of chicane

to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal

a lawyer who is so notorious for chicaning that the guilty invariably seek his services

Synonyms of chicane

cheat, finagle, fudge

Words Related to chicane

color, distort, falsify, misinterpret, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp

doctor, fake, tamper (with)

elaborate, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, magnify, pad, stretch

dodge, evade, hedge

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