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with Anu Gargchicanery
PRONUNCIATION:
(shi-KAY-nuh-ree)
MEANING:
noun:
Deception by trickery or sophistry.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French chicaner (to quibble).
USAGE:
"Some analysts are claiming that these arrests [of Taliban members] are
not good news at all, but merely evidence of still more too-clever-by-half
chicanery by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence."Good News From Pakistan, And That's No Conspiracy; The Gazette (Montreal, Canada); Feb 24, 2010. See more usage examples of chicanery in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (1809-1865)
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