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synonyms for chicane

  • dishonesty
  • duplicity
  • machination
  • stratagem
  • artifice
  • cheating
  • deviousness
  • dodge
  • double-crossing
  • double-dealing
  • feint
  • fraud
  • furtiveness
  • gambit
  • intrigue
  • maneuver
  • plot
  • ploy
  • ruse
  • skullduggery
  • sophistry
  • subterfuge
  • wiles
  • fourberie
  • hanky-panky
  • sharp practice
  • surreptitiousness
  • underhandedness
See also synonyms for: chicaned / chicaning

antonyms for chicane

MOST RELEVANT
  • honesty
  • openness
  • truthfulness
  • forthrightness
      • aid
      • assist
      • help
      • protect
      • support
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      How to use chicane in a sentence

      You will not wonder that I lose time and catch at every hope, rather than involve myself in that labyrinth of Chicane and expense.
      PRIVATE LETTERS OF EDWARD GIBBON (1753-1794) VOLUME 1 (OF 2)EDWARD GIBBON
      A revoking side may score nothing either above or below the line except for honours or chicane.
      ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUS
      He thinks that all the resources of ingenuity ought to be employed to baffle chicane, not to support it.
      THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, VOL. XI. (OF 12)EDMUND BURKE
      I never darkened it with absurd and contradictory notions, nor confounded it with chicane and sophistry.
      THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, VOL. I. (OF 12)EDMUND BURKE
      Apparently Judge Dunder had in this case resolved to wink a little at chicane and decide for justice in the broader sense.
      THE INCENDIARYW. A. (WILLIAM AUGUSTINE) LEAHY
      The new recruit in the army of business chicane nodded his head.
      THE QUICKENINGFRANCIS LYNDE
      Chicane, a hand which is without a trump, adds the value of three honours to the honour score.
      BRIDGE; ITS PRINCIPLES AND RULES OF PLAYJ.B. ELWELL
      Double Chicane, a player and partner having no trumps, adds the value of four honours to the honour score.
      BRIDGE; ITS PRINCIPLES AND RULES OF PLAYJ.B. ELWELL
      A game consists of thirty points obtained by tricks alone, exclusive of any points counted for honours, chicane or slam.
      BRIDGE; ITS PRINCIPLES AND RULES OF PLAYJ.B. ELWELL
      Remark what he says here, and then judge whether these inferences are to be eluded by any chicane.
      THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, VOL. XII. (OF XII.)EDMUND BURKE
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