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chicanery

/shi-key-nuh-ree, chi-/US // ʃɪˈkeɪ nə ri, tʃɪ- //UK // (ʃɪˈkeɪnərɪ) //

诡计多端,狡诈,狡猾,巧取豪夺

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural chi·can·er·ies.

    • : trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry: He resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the job.
    • : a quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundeception, trickery

Examples

  • There are centuries of chicanery to draw upon, after all, and some tried-and-true techniques that simply need to be upgraded for the modern era.

  • In the process, it turns a quirky true-life tale of corporate chicanery into an eye-opening examination of the way our beliefs about gender shape the public narrative.

  • In 2018, digital ad buyers lost $19 billion in fraud from bot traffic and other chicanery.

  • The country has a long history of such chicanery—including an incident in 2007 that predates even Egypt’s seminal service disruption.

  • An indictment of the sort of financial chicanery that eventually fueled the crash of 2008.

  • Fans of today adore the cheaters of the past, precisely because of their chicanery.

  • And the truth is that even if there's a little chicanery going on, the current compensation scheme is working brilliantly.

  • In 1500 the palace was the shrine of an artistic nobility; to-day it is a temple of chicanery.

  • The time will come, however, when old Virginia will stand trifling and chicanery no longer.

  • This substitution of chicanery in place of devastation takes place only in an uncertain degree.

  • To be defeated by rascality, by a clever turn of chicanery, never disturbed him—that was legitimate.

  • A goodly portion of my life has been spent in battling with superstition, credulity and chicanery in every form.