Chicanery (Noun)
Meaning
The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The telemarketing company was shut down for using chicanery to scam elderly people out of their life savings.
- The used car salesman's chicanery was evident in the way he concealed the vehicle's mechanical issues from the buyer.
- The con artist's chicanery landed her a hefty sum of money before she was caught and arrested.
- The victim of the Ponzi scheme was a victim of the perpetrator's clever chicanery, which had convinced her to invest all of her savings.
- The false advertising and misleading labeling of the product were just two examples of the company's chicanery.