chicanery

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. (uncountable) Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
  2. (countable) An individual act of trickery or deception.
  3. (archaic, uncountable) The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.

Konzepte

Sophisterei

Spitzfindigkeit

Täuschungsmanöver

Sophisma

Übersetzungen

xicana

engalipada

farfolla

απάτη

τέχνασμα

δικολαβισμός

δόλος

εξαπάτηση

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From French chicanerie (“trickery”), from chicaner, from Middle French chicaner, borrowed from Middle Low German schicken, from Old Saxon *skikkian, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skikkijaną (“to order, arrange”). Related to German schicken (“to send, ship”), Middle English skekken (“to send forth, issue”).

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