chicanery
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
The use of trickery and clever, deceptive manoeuvres to achieve an end.
The contract was won through legal chicanery rather than genuine merit.
Business noun
The use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one's ends.
The restructuring was dismissed by minority shareholders as legal chicanery designed to dilute them.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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