Chicanery

chi-can-er-y (shĭ-kāˈnə-rē, chĭ-)*

noun
1. Deceit through trickery or sophistry.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Synonyms: aspersion, calumniation, calumny, deciet, deception, defamation, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, duplicity, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, fraud, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, lie, mendancity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, revilement, slander, stratagem, subterfuge, tale, tall tale, white lie, whopper, quibbling.

* Be careful not to pronounce it chick-cannery. That just has terrible connotations and sounds silly.