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trickery::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile |
| Type of | dissembling, deceit, dissimulation, deception |
| Has types | put-on, hoax, humbug, jugglery, dupery, fraud, fraudulence |
| Derivation | trick |
trickery::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness |
| Type of | deception, misrepresentation, deceit |
| Derivation | trick |
Examples of trickery
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Halloween trickery and witchery, however, aren't the only reason to visit Salem.
From the chron.com
The burst of pace and trickery to beat opponents in congested areas was evident.
From the express.co.uk
On their next possession, the Warriors used a little trickery to regain the lead.
From the stltoday.com
The Bobcats reached the end zone with a little trickery on their next possession.
From the freep.com
With the game out of hand, both coaches tried some trickery to find the end zone.
From the tennessean.com
Meanwhile, scammers have honed the trickery used to turn stolen data into cash.
From the usatoday.com
Hart, recruited heavily by Duke's Hal McElhaney, did more than football trickery.
From the newsobserver.com
It's crammed with daring stunts without any antiseptic visual-effects trickery.
From the latimes.com
He made man from clay, stole fire from Zeus by trickery, and gave it to humans.
From the economist.com
- Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
- The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and conventional behavior. ...
- The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture
- The use of tricks and deceit to gain advantage from another.
