chicanery
英语
编辑词源
编辑源自法语 chicanerie (“欺诈”)，源自chicaner，借自中古低地德语 schicken，最终源自原始西日耳曼语 *skikkijan，源自原始日耳曼语 *skikkijaną。与德语 schicken (“派遣”)、中古英语 skekken (“发行，发布”)有关。
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编辑名词
编辑chicanery (可数 和 不可数，复数 chicaneries)
- 欺骗，诈骗；骗人的花招
- 1823, Charles Lamb, “Popular Fallacies”, 出自 Elia, new版, London: Edward Moxon, 出版于 1835, →ISBN，第 241 页:
- They do not always find manors, got by rapine or chicanery, insensibly to melt away, as the poets will have it ; or that all gold glides, like thawing snow, from the thief’s hand that grasps it.
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- 2017, Gordon Smith, “Chicanery”, 出自 Better Call Saul, 第 3 季数, 第 5 集数, 角色 Chuck McGill（Michael McKean）:
- He covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy!
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- 2019年4月28日, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, 出自 The A.V. Club[1]，于31 May 2021归档自原页面:
- Having survived “The Long Night,” Daenerys will now be turning her attention back to the problem that originally vexed her: Cersei Lannister. It will be interesting to see how the show tries to raise the stakes of an internecine squabble between competing monarchs when compared to an existential threat to humanity’s very existence, but this series has always excelled when it goes deep on the machinations of political chicanery.
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- (可数，法律) （律师的）不诚实行为，欺骗行为
近义词
编辑- (欺骗)： dishonesty、fakery、fraud、trickery、subterfuge
相关词汇
编辑参见
编辑- (律师)： Philadelphia lawyer