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noun (n)

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)(noun.act)

  Synonym:
  chicane, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile
  

  source: wordnet30
• Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.(noun)

  source: webster1913