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chicanery

noun
/ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/CA/ʃɪˈkæɪn(ə)ɹi/

Etymology

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 (“to order, arrange”). Related to German schicken (“to send, ship”), Middle English skekken (“to send forth, issue”).

  1. derived from *skikkijan✻ — “to order, arrange”
  2. derived from *skikkian✻
  3. derived from schicken
  4. derived from chicaner

Definitions

  1. 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. An individual act of trickery or deception.

  3. 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.

The neighborhood

Derived

chicanerous

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA