Today's Word "chicanery"
A trick or subterfuge
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chicanery \shih-KAY-nuh-ree\ (noun) - 1 : The use of trickery or sophistry to deceive (as in matters of law). 2 : A trick; a subterfuge.
"She'd stake her life, Thornton Chickens, and everything else she held dear, that Sage Thornton was a victim of some first-class chicanery." -- Fern Michaels, 'Vegas Sunrise'
Chicanery comes from French chicaner, "to quibble, to use tricks," perhaps from Middle Low German schicken, "to arrange," with the sense "to arrange to one's own advantage."
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