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Chicanery
chicanery
(chicaneries) Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people. (FORMAL) = trickery N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl
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1.
noun (plural -neries) Date: 1609 1. deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry ; trickery 2. a piece of sharp practice (as at law) ; trick ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
n. (pl. -ies) 1 clever but misleading talk; a false argument. 2 trickery, deception. Etymology: F chicanerie (as CHICANE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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4.
1. крючкотворство; сутяжничество 2. софистика 3. придирка impatient of such chicaneries —- выведенный из себя такими придирками ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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6.
~ n formal the use of clever plans or actions to deceive people (The legal system got to the truth and settled cases fairly and without chicanery.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
7.
- 1609, from Fr. chicanerie "trickery," from M.Fr. chicaner "to pettifog, quibble," perhaps from M.L.G. schikken "to arrange, bring about," or from the name of a golf-like game once played in Languedoc. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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