chicanery
chicanery 英 [ʃɪˈkeɪnəri] 美 [ʃɪˈkenəri, tʃɪ-]
n. 狡辩；欺骗；强词夺理
名词复数:chicaneries
- Have you ever gotten the sense that politicians or corporate leaders will say anything to turn public opinion their way? This tricky kind of deceit and manipulation is called chicanery.
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- n. 狡辩；欺骗；强词夺理
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1. This chicanery can range from relatively benign but useless efforts to overly aggressive promotion to outright fraud.
这样的欺骗手段可以相对无害地提升排名，但是这种急功近利地推销无疑是一种欺诈行为，是无用之功。
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2. We still do; living in a world in which undeclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code to live by.
如今，不宣而战的侵略、战争、虚伪、诈骗、无政府状态以及即将临头的毁灭成了我们日常生活的一部分，我们都希望有一个赖以生存的行为准则。
- chicanery (n.) c. 1610s, "legal quibbling, sophistry, mean or petty tricks," from French chicanerie "trickery," from Middle French chicaner "to pettifog, quibble" (15c.), which is of unknown origin, perhaps from Middle Low German schikken "to arrange, bring about," or from the name of a golf-like game once played in Languedoc. Also compare French chic "small, little," as a noun "a small piece; finesse, subtlety." Thornton's "American Glossary" has shecoonery (1845), which it describes as probably a corruption of chicanery.
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