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trickery

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trick·er·y  (trk-r)
n. pl. trick·er·ies
The practice or use of tricks; deception by stratagem.
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Noun1.trickerytrickery - verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
deception, misrepresentation, deceit - a misleading falsehood
2.trickerytrickery - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
dissimulation, deception, dissembling, deceit - the act of deceiving
dupery, hoax, put-on, humbug, fraud, fraudulence - something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
jugglery - artful trickery designed to achieve an end; "the senator's tax program was mere jugglery"

trickery
noun deception, fraud, cheating, con (informal) hoax, pretence, deceit, dishonesty, swindling, guile, double-dealing, skulduggery (informal) chicanery, hanky-panky (informal) hokum (slang), chiefly U.S., Canad. monkey business (informal) funny business, jiggery-pokery (informal), chiefly Brit. imposture << OPPOSITE honesty
Translations
Spanish trickery [ˈtrɪkərɪ] nengaño
French trickery [ˈtrɪkərɪ] nruse f
German trickery [ˈtrɪkərɪ] trick nTricks pl, Betrügerei f
Italian trickery [ˈtrɪkərɪ] ninganno

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Jinjur was prepared for this message, for the witch well understood, when her natural form was thrust upon her, that Glinda had discovered her trickery.
There was a great deal of bargaining, of running up and beating down; and if a horse may speak his mind so far as he understands, I should say there were more lies told and more trickery at that horse fair than a clever man could give an account of.
He was cruel enough to in- flict the severest punishment, artful enough to de- scend to the lowest trickery, and obdurate enough to be insensible to the voice of a reproving conscience.
 
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