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Chicanery is the use of clever plans or actions to trick people — games with words, rules, or small print, not with a weapon. A politician, a lawyer, or a company may be accused of chicanery if they twist the wording, hide the real meaning, or play with the rules in order to win. It is a formal, rather cold, noun. In casual speech people are more likely to say tricks, cheating, or they played games with the wording. It names the method, the sly cleverness, not a single object you can hold. You will meet it in news and essays, not in the market. Though actually, it is stronger than a simple mistake: chicanery always says someone meant to .
詭計、鑽營、玩弄手段（偏書面；不是一般說的「聰明」）
組成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”) and to Middle English skekken (“to send forth, issue”), which has not survived in modern English.
同家族的字
- chicanefrom the same French family: a twist in the road, or older, a twist in talk
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
chicanerynoun/ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/
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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.
- He covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy!
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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.
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archaicThe 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。