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Monday, September 14, 2020
Chicanery
Chicanery
(SHIH-kan-ree)
Definition:
Trickery, deception.
Origins:
French
chicaner,
'to quibble.'
Sentence:
"Her feeble attempts at
chicanery
were obvious and disgusting."
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