chicanery

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

  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.

Phát âm là (IPA)
/ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/
Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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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