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Shrewdness vs Chicanery - What's the difference?

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Shrewdness is a related term of chicanery.


As nouns the difference between shrewdness and chicanery

is that shrewdness is the quality of being shrewd while chicanery is deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

shrewdness

English

Noun

(shrewdnesses)
  • The quality of being shrewd.
  • An invented collective name for a group of apes.

    • 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