α. 1500s–1700s chicanerie, 1600s chicannery, 1600s chiquanerey, 1600s chiquanery, 1600s– chicanery.
β. 1600s chicanrey, 1600s–1700s chicanry.
单词 | chicanery |
释义 | chicaneryn.α. 1500s–1700s chicanerie, 1600s chicannery, 1600s chiquanerey, 1600s chiquanery, 1600s– chicanery. β. 1600s chicanrey, 1600s–1700s chicanry. 1. The use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one's purpose, esp. a legal, financial, or political purpose; petty quibbling or (esp. legal) trickery. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] swikec893 swikedomc893 dwalec950 braida1000 falsec1000 flerdc1000 swikelnessa1023 fakenOE chuffingc1175 fikenungc1175 bipechingc1200 treachery?c1225 falseshipc1230 guilec1230 telingc1230 swikeheada1250 craftc1275 felony1297 wrench1297 deceitc1300 gabc1300 guiling13.. guilery1303 quaintisec1325 wrenk1338 beswiking1340 falsehood1340 abetc1350 wissing1357 wilec1374 faitery1377 faiting1377 tregetryc1380 fallacec1384 trainc1390 coverture1393 facrere1393 ficklenessc1397 falsagea1400 tregeta1400 abusionc1405 blearingc1405 deceptionc1430 mean?c1430 tricotc1430 obreption1465 fallacy1481 japery1496 gauderya1529 fallax1530 conveyance1531 legerdemain1532 dole1538 trompe1547 joukery1562 convoyance1578 forgery1582 abetment1586 outreaching1587 chicanery1589 falsery1594 falsity1603 fubbery1604 renaldry1612 supercherie1621 circumduction1623 fobbinga1627 dice-play1633 beguile1637 fallaxitya1641 ingannation1646 hocus1652 renardism1661 dodgerya1670 knapping1671 trap1681 joukery-pawkery1686 jugglery1699 take-in1772 tripotage1779 trickery1801 ruse1807 dupery1816 nailing1819 pawkery1820 hanky-panky1841 hokey-pokey1847 suck-in1856 phenakisma1863 skulduggery1867 sharp practice1869 dodginess1871 jiggery-pokery1893 flim-flammery1898 runaround1915 hanky1924 to give the go-around1925 Scandiknavery1927 the twist1933 hype1955 mamaguy1971 society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > inferior or rascally pettifogging1580 chicanery1589 pettifoggery1659 chicane1681 shysterism1926 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > crafty or misleading chicanery1589 chicane1683 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > [noun] cavillation138. hafting1519 brabbling1532 brabblementa1563 chicanery1589 caption1605 illaqueation1605 argutation1641 chicane1681 1589 tr. Restorer of French Estate v. 76 Ye retaine the proceedings which ye call the Chicanerie of the Popes court. a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 151 I shall not advise this honourable House to use any chiquanery or pettiffoggery with this great representation of the kingdom. 1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) Pref. 57 To do it with all the Tricks and Chicanery possible. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xii. 262 The period of lord Danby's administration..was full of chicanery and dissimulation on the king's side. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §8. 553 Forty days wasted in useless chicanery. 1965 Ebony May 173/1 Criminal suspects, who are ignorant of their constitutional rights, have been sitting ducks for police chicanery. 2018 Gold Coast (Austral.) Sun (Nexis) 17 Oct. (Central ed.) 13 We suffer a social climate of political, religious and commercial chicanery slowly undermining an entitlement of national pride and security. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > dishonesty fakenOE falseshipc1230 foulnessa1470 dishonesty1600 falsity1603 sinisterity1629 chicanery1655 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > crafty or misleading > as a personal quality chicanery1655 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xix. 56 It was adjudg'd, that the stile [of spoken French] of the Kings Court was the purest and most elegant, because the other two did smell the one of pedantery, the other of chiquanery. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 118 He carried home with him all the knavish chicanery of the lowest pettifogger. 1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger III. xvi. 256 The artifice, chicanery and low cunning of a crafty and corrupt mind. 3. A dishonest trick; an act of deception; a petty quibble. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > inferior or rascally > instance of chicane1639 chicanery1683 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > crafty or misleading > instance of chicane1639 chicanery1683 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > [noun] > instance of cavillation1532 cavil1570 brabble1581 caption1605 snatcha1616 chicane1639 chicanery1683 1683 W. Williams Answer Mr. Hunt's Postscript 6 Stuffed with nothing but Railings, false Recitals of Scripture History, Fallacies and Chicaneries. 1758 J. Jortin Life Erasmus I. 103 These letters..full of chicaneries about trifles. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 227 Previously the Senate had attempted to annul the appointment of their enemy..because a mouse had been heard to squeak during the election... Impatient of such chicaneries, Flaminius took the law into his own hands. 2018 Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania) (Nexis) 17 Oct. 4 I am sick and tired of the chicaneries of the KIC [= King Island Council]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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