单词 | chicaning |
释义 | chicaningn. 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 > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > [noun] > raising of cavillation?1553 cavilling1565 cavil1597 chicaning1691 1691 J. Chamberlayne tr. S. von Pufendorf Hist. Popedom 97 They had gain'd nothing, unless it be the Art of Chicaning, Simony, and another abominable Crime, which it is hardly lawful to pronounce. 1775 J. Tucker Let. to Burke 32 An effectual Stop had been put to American Chicaning. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. v. 644 The Hofkriegsrath..make no end of chicaning to one's clear answers. 1939 C. K. Eves Matthew Prior ix. 267 He was a shrewd statesman..and had no scruples against chicaning in the service of the Grand Monarch. 2014 Financial Times (Electronic ed.) 3 Jan. 11 Chicaning and horse-trading..existed as intensively in Lincoln's Washington as it does in that of Barack..Obama. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). chicaningadj. That employs chicanery; petty, deceitful, quibbling. Also: characterized by chicanery. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > [adjective] > practising law > in inferior or rascally manner chicaning1698 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > [adjective] quidifical1542 quidditative1611 quibbling1624 quirkish1673 chicaning1698 quibbing1760 quibbly1895 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adjective] > cheating trifling?a1400 cogging1542 cheatingc1555 flim-flam1577 overreaching1579 cozening1583 fogging1585 circumventing1603 gulling1614 imposturing1618 chicaning1698 crimping1699 bilking1732 humbugging1752 imposinga1754 nailing1819 1698 M. Prior Let. 20 Aug. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 266 With chicaning answers. 1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. v. 37 A poor Chicaning Petty Fogger. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xviii. 71 While your fortune and estate is with-held from you..as long as the chicaning Law..can keep it from you. 1836 B. Disraeli Lett. Runnymede 79 Your chicaning colleagues. 1990 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 56 460 In..his fictionalized autobiography, he [sc. Joel Chandler Harris] painted a grim picture of the reality of war, complete with chicaning Confederates. 2013 Techtree.com (Nexis) 8 Nov. Who would've thought that Microsoft, often viewed as grim and chicaning, would actually get on the cute brigade. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1691adj.1698 |
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