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Ploy vs Chicanery - What's the difference?

ploy | chicanery |

As nouns the difference between ploy and chicanery

is that ploy is a tactic, strategy, or gimmick while chicanery is deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

As a verb ploy

is (military) to form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.

ploy

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tactic, strategy, or gimmick.
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  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably abbreviated from deploy.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
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    Antonyms
    * deploy (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    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