chicanery

n. 强词夺理, 狡辩, 欺骗

发音

CA /ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/
US /ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/
UK /ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/
AU /ʃɪˈkæɪn(ə)ɹi/

词形变化

chicaneries 复数 chicaneries

别名

chickenry

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

    不可数 可数
  2. 2.

    An individual act of trickery or deception.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.

    古体 不可数 可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

trickery guile wile chicane shenanigan

上位词 4

deception deceit dissembling dissimulation

下位词 7

fraud hoax humbug dupery fraudulence jugglery put-on

词源

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, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skikkijaną (“to order, arrange”). Related to German schicken (“to send, ship”), Middle English skekken (“to send forth, issue”).

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