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Перевод: chicanery

[существительное]
крючкотворство; софистика ; придирка

Тезаурус:

1. Admittedly, this has been achieved, in part, by the kind of chicanery and double book-keeping which would earn a jail sentence for the treasurer-secretary of a small glue factory.
2. Clearly there is some chicanery going on and perhaps in due course we will find out the truth.
3. The mixing of aircraft development and behind the scenes political chicanery makes for a very interesting and revealing read.
4. The great political bonds, which - for all the associated chicanery - did articulate political groupings and attitudes based on considerations of foreign policy and religious belief, gave way to bonds motivated by reactions to the personal behaviour of the monarch.
5. Hitler's instruction to curb anti-Polish activity meant that what they could not accomplish by open violence or legalistic chicanery they would have to accomplish by stealth and skulduggery.
6. After the stories that circulate about Civil Service chicanery, I can attest to the professionalism of my team.
7. He was going behind Vincent's back with his "hatred, grudges, chicanery, sarcasm".
8. No wonder, Paulos argues, that in a society in which such lapses are common, and indeed go unremarked, the citizenry should be prey to every form of delusion and chicanery, political or mercenary.
9. This book is far from just a story about budding aircraft, it reveals the human squabbles, foolishness and chicanery that goes hand-in-hand with all undertakings involving industry and governments, plus the double-dealing that occurs in international commercial competition, let alone in politics.
10. "If this is true, I am shocked and horrified that Ford could engage in such subterfuge and chicanery," said Jimmy Airlie, chief Ford negotiator for the giant Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union.
11. They got on with their lives, didn't interfere, knew nothing of human quarrels, obeyed natural laws without any chicanery.
12. Sir, - Now that the dust has finally settled on this election we may pause to reflect on what has undoubtedly been one of the dirtiest, and most depressing of exercises in political chicanery.
13. That would get back at them for their currency chicanery which cost us so dear.