English Dictionary

chicanery

IPA（発音記号）

/ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge. / (countable, law) A slick performance by a lawyer.

日本語の意味

策略、欺瞞、詐欺的な手法を用いる行為 / （法廷用語として）巧妙な弁護士の弁護手法や、そのようなパフォーマンス

The board uncovered the CEO's elaborate chicanery, which had inflated earnings to mislead investors.

取締役会は、投資家を誤導するために利益を水増ししていたCEOの巧妙な詭計を暴いた。

意味（1）

Deception by 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.

意味（2）

(countable, law) A slick performance by a lawyer.

chicaneries （ plural ）