#chicanery__trickery__guile__wile__shenanigan the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
supertype: deception__deceit__dissembling__dissimulation the act of deceiving
subtype: fraudulence__fraud__dupery__hoax__humbug__put-on__puton something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
subtype: goldbrick anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
subtype: jugglery.chicanery artful trickery designed to achieve an end; "the senator's tax program was mere jugglery"
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