Noun:

झूठा आक्षेप, झूठा इलज़ाम,

chicanery's Usage Examples:

councils, and even from the humblest municipal offices; they were deprived of the charge of their hospitals, their academies, their colleges and their schools, and were left to ignorance and poverty; while the intolerance of the clergy united with chicanery of procedure to invade their places of worship, insult their adherents, and put a stop to the practice of their ritual.

They should be learning instead how to spot statistical chicanery.

After eight years of financial chicanery, he concludes, " the Chancellor has produced an Enron for Africa.

Knowing British chicanery, Mr Post was right not to be surprised.

She would have seen much political chicanery in our United Kingdom.

He had suffered twice from the chicanery of Edward's lawyers; in 1284 when a dispute between himself and the royal favourite, John Giffard, was decided in the latter's favour; and again in 1292 when he was punished with temporary imprisonment and sequestration for a technical, and apparently unwitting, contempt of the king's court.

But he spent what small energy he possessed in a wretched strife of chicanery and broken promises with Thomas of Lancaster and his party, dismissing and recalling Gaveston according to the exigencies of the moment, while he let the Scottish war shift for itself.

Andrew, who behaved with injudicious violence, was banished to France, James to Newcastle; other preachers were confined to their parishes; and by a mixture of chicanery (as at the pseudo assembly of Linlithgow) and of violence, the king established his tottering episcopacy, and sowed the dragon's teeth of civil war.

method were due to those lawyers of the south and of Normandy who had been nurtured on Roman law in the universities of Bologna or Montpellier, had practised chicanery in the provincial courts, had gradually thrust themselves into the great arena of politics, and were now leading the king and filling his parlement.

His chicanery need not, howForeign ever, be censured over much, for the princes with whom i~yVU.

Synonyms:

deception, dissimulation, jugglery, put-on, chicane, deceit, humbug, hoax, dupery, fraudulence, fraud, shenanigan, trickery, guile, wile, dissembling,

Antonyms:

truth, understatement, honesty, ingenuousness,