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Apr 9, 2010 This week's theme Miscellaneous words This week's words desideratum limen obdurate quiescence chicanery This week's comments AWADmail 406 Next week's theme Toponyms Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg chicanery PRONUNCIATION: (shi-KAY-nuh-ree) MEANING: noun: Deception by trickery or sophistry. ETYMOLOGY: From French chicaner (to quibble). USAGE: "Some analysts are claiming that these arrests [of Taliban members] are not good news at all, but merely evidence of still more too-clever-by-half chicanery by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence." Good News From Pakistan, And That's No Conspiracy; The Gazette (Montreal, Canada); Feb 24, 2010. Explore "chicanery" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (1809-1865)

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