Being chicanerous is a character "vice of deficit" stemming from what would otherwise be a character virtue in the form of honesty. It is not the same as lying, but rather of remaining silent and observant, "withholding the truth for the sake of advantage over others." It is intellectually narcissistic, which is to say that it contains either the intellectual narcissism of ignorance or prejudice. One may be ignorant of how much a potential partner needs to know about you to feel intimate and connected. Everyone wants to start with honesty, not just "lies of omission." Chicanery may be prejudicial against those who expect equal, trusting self-disclosure in exchange for their own. After all, that kind of shared honesty is part of what makes intimate partnerships so special.
Someone who is "chicanerous," is by definition, soliciting private information from another person, but giving no real clues to who they are in return. It shows poor boundaries for ever retaining mutual respect (and the enjoyment of slow discovery of the identity of the other person.) However, all human beings communicate on a spectrum between being overly transparent, and too chicanerous to gain the trust of their audience. This highlights the central psychological skill that counters vices: maturity, which contains the Observing Ego to scan the environment for its composition and needs, matching that to what we endeavor in that social environment.
As a vice which makes partnership within relationships fail to get to goals, and intellectually unattractive, consider this vice to be negative in many ways, including in sexual attraction, since it is "unintimate," and "emotionally withholding."