trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry

He resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the job.

a quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade.

noun

forthrightness , honesty , truthfulness

noun

artifice , cheating , chicane , deviousness , dishonesty , dodge , double-crossing , double-dealing * , duplicity , feint , fourberie , fraud , furtiveness , gambit , hanky-panky * , intrigue , machination , maneuver , plot , ploy , ruse , sharp practice , skullduggery , sophistry , stratagem , subterfuge , surreptitiousness , underhandedness , wilesnotes:duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness , craft , craftiness , shadiness , shiftiness , slyness , sneakiness , trickery , trickiness , cunning , deceit , deception , hocus pocus , trick , wile