Word of the Day - Chicanery

chicanery PRONUNCIATION: (shi-KAY-nuh-ree) MEANING: noun: Deception by trickery or sophistry. ETYMOLOGY: From French chicaner (to quibble). USAGE: She would have seen much political chicanery in our United Kingdom. After eight years of financial chicanery, he concludes, " the Chancellor has produced an Enron for Africa.