trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
(noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
(noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
Source: WordNet® 3.1
trickery (countable and uncountable, plural trickeries)
(uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
(uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
(uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
(countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
• See deception
Source: Wiktionary
Trick"er*y, n.
Definition: The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 June 2025
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
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