1. Noun
The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
2. Noun
To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.
3. Noun
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
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