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Wiliness vs Chicanery - What's the difference?

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Wiliness is a related term of chicanery.


As nouns the difference between wiliness and chicanery

is that wiliness is deceitful cleverness or shrewdness while chicanery is deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

wiliness

English

Noun

  • deceitful cleverness or shrewdness

    • Related terms

    * wily

    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