chicanery

noun3

1. •
   Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

   • They do not always find manors, got by rapine or chicanery, insensibly to melt away, as the poets will have it; or that all gold glides, like thawing snow, from the thief’s hand that grasps it. — 1823
2. •
   An individual act of trickery or deception.
3. •
   (no longer used) The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.