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chicanery vs dissembling

dissembling vs chicanery

chicanery and dissembling both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
chicanery Yes No No No
dissembling Yes No No No
As nouns, dissembling is a hypernym of chicanery; that is, dissembling is a word with a broader meaning than chicanery:
  • chicanery: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
  • dissembling: the act of deceiving
Other hypernyms of chicanery include deceit, deception, dissimulation.
chicanery (noun) dissembling (noun)
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) the act of deceiving
pretending with intention to deceive
Difference between chicanery and dissembling

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