chicanery
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chicanery
- /ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/ Canada, US, UK
- /ʃəˈkæɪn(ə)ɹi/ Australia
Where it comes from
From French chicanerie (“trickery”), from chicaner, from Middle French chicaner, borrowed from Middle Low German schicken, from Old Saxon *skikkian, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan (“to order, arrange”).
Related to German schicken (“to send, ship”), Middle English skekken (“to send forth, issue”).
noun chicaneries
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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.
Similar: dishonesty, fakery, fraud, trickery, subterfuge
- An individual act of trickery or deception. Stanford University's honor code dates to 1921, written by students to help guide them through the minefield of plagiarism, forbidden collaboration, copying and other chicaneries that have tempted undergraduates since they first arrived on college campuses.
- The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness. He carried home with him all the knaviſh chicanery of the loweſt pettifogger, together with a wife whom he had purchſed of a drayman for twenty pounds; and he ſoon found means to obtain a Dedimus as an acting juſtice of peace.
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noun deception by use of trickery
| Deutsch | Täuschung f Schikane, Täuschungsmanöver |
|---|---|
| Русский | уло́вка ulóvka |
noun A slick performance by a lawyer
| Español | chicana, triquiñuela |
|---|---|
| Português | chicana |
| Русский | крючкотворство krjučkotvorstvo |
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