| 词汇 | chicanery |
| 释义 | chicanery noun[ U ] formaluk /ʃɪˈkeɪ.nər.i/ us /ʃɪˈkeɪ.nɚ.i/ clever, dishonest talk or behaviour that is used to deceive people: 诡辩;诡计;欺诈 The investigation revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels.调查揭露出了最高层的政治欺诈和腐败。 Synonyms guileformal trickerydisapproving Plotting & trapping be in league with someoneidiom cahoots catch someone out chemtrail cloak-and-dagger conspiracy theorist conspiracy theory conspirator conspire entrap insinuate outplot plotter ploy pretext pretextual put-up job sting what's your game?idiom wheeze chicanery | American Dictionarychicanery noun[ U ] us/ʃɪˈkeɪ·nə·ri, tʃɪ-/ dishonest but attractive talk or behavior that is used to deceive people: The investigation has revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels. Examples of chicanerychicanery It was a brilliant piece of political chicanery. The political game everywhere involves manipulation and chicanery, deals and betrayals. This was made worse by the political chicanery surrounding peace organisations in a country at war. That is, the subjects judged deletion to be more likely in nursery than in cursory, in memory than in mammary, in scenery than in chicanery, and so on. I find that there are no limits to the chicanery, dishonesty and callousness with which this matter of obtaining vacant possession is approached. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many democracies have fallen and are falling, some of them because of party conspiracies and chicanery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have had a lot of words, "sordid", "cheat", "fraudulent", "chicanery", "gerrymander", "sham", "tricksters", and "nincompoop". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But there should be no kind of chicanery or flat-rate payments made when the travel expenses are claimed later. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It was almost 20 years before this simple and unsophisticated people tumbled to such chicanery and began to ask for recompense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My amendments would mean that fewer votes would be wasted; there would be less opportunity for chicanery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I regret the chicanery earlier this evening that resulted in a clause not being debated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say that because the whole of the debate has been conceived and developed in a mood of chicanery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have their virtues, but among their virtues is not verbal chicanery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That will lead to a great deal of political jobbery and chicanery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is an absolute scandal, chicanery of the worst sort. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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