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

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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.

noundeception, trickery

Synonyms

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.

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

诡计多端,狡诈,狡猾,巧取豪夺

n.名词 noun

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.

noundeception, trickery

Synonyms

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.