chicanery

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

   “They do not always find manors, got by rapine or chicanery, insensibly to melt away, as the poets will have it; or that all gold glides, like thawing snow, from the thief’s hand that grasps it.”

2. isim An individual act of trickery or deception.

   “Stanford University's honor code dates to 1921, written by students to help guide them through the minefield of plagiarism, forbidden collaboration, copying and other chicaneries that have tempted undergraduates since they first arrived on college campuses.”

3. isim The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.

   “He carried home with him all the knaviſh chicanery of the loweſt pettifogger, together with a wife whom he had purchſed of a drayman for twenty pounds; and he ſoon found means to obtain a Dedimus as an acting juſtice of peace.”