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Chicanery vs Equivocation - What's the difference?

chicanery | equivocation |

As nouns the difference between chicanery and equivocation

is that chicanery is deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge while equivocation is (logic) a logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.

chicanery

English

Noun

  • Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
  • (countable, legal) A slick performance by a lawyer.

    • Synonyms

    * (deception) dishonesty, fraud, trickery, subterfuge

    See also

    * (performance by a lawyer) Philadelphia lawyer

    equivocation

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (wikipedia equivocation) (en noun)
  • (logic) A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.
  • The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.

    • Related terms

    * amphiboly, evasion, evasiveness, prevarication

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