Trickery

Quick meaning: Trickery is a noun meaning (countable, uncountable) Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.

Meaning

(countable, uncountable) Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.
2. (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.

Example Sentences

[H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.

In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.

The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax.

French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.

Word Forms

• trickeries

Synonyms for trickery

Depending on context, synonyms include fraudulence, underhandedness, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, dissimulation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include skulduggery, jiggery-pokery, chicanery, guile, wile, shenanigan.

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