chicanery
英語
編輯詞源
編輯源自法語 chicanerie (「欺詐」)，源自chicaner，借自中古低地德語 schicken，最終源自原始西日耳曼語 *skikkijan，源自原始日耳曼語 *skikkijaną。與德語 schicken (「派遣」)、中古英語 skekken (「發行，發布」)有關。
發音
編輯名詞
編輯chicanery (可數 和 不可數，複數 chicaneries)
- 欺騙，詐騙；騙人的花招
- 1823, Charles Lamb, 「Popular Fallacies」, 出自 Elia, new版, London: Edward Moxon, 出版於 1835, →ISBN，第 241 頁:
- 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 季數, 第 5 集數, 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]，於31 May 2021歸檔自原頁面:
- 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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- (可數，法律) （律師的）不誠實行為，欺騙行為
近義詞
編輯- (欺騙)： dishonesty、fakery、fraud、trickery、subterfuge
相關詞彙
編輯參見
編輯- (律師)： Philadelphia lawyer