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TRICKERY
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
Etymology
Noun
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.
Synonyms
• 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
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