chicanery
Signification (Anglais)
- (uncountable) Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
- (countable) An individual act of trickery or deception.
- (archaic, uncountable) The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.
Concepts
Synonymes
underhand action
take-in
false pretence
positive fraud
Traductions
vessazione
triquiñuela
xicana farfolla engalipada
Sophisterei SpitzfindigkeitPrononcé comme (IPA)
/ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/
Étymologie (Anglais)
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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