📚 Chicanery, noun. 🔉 /ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one's purpose. ❗️ Examples: 1. Storylines packed with political chicanery. 2. Set aside the usual circus ring tricks of political chicanery. 3. The managers hope that, through chicanery and fraud, they could save the dollar from sudden death. 4. Lies, fraud, chicanery and self indulgence are endemic in society today - or am I being presumptuous? 5. But all these examples are nothing more than political chicanery. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic