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Chicaner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who uses shifts, turns, evasions or undue artifices, in litigation or disputes; a caviller; a sophister; an unfair disputant.

Chicaner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who uses chicanery.

Chicanery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Sophistry; mean or unfair artifices to perplex a cause and obscure the truth.

Chicanery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.