chicanery 的定义
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.
chicanery 近义词
deception, trickery
更多chicanery例句
- 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.