Trickery
['trɪk(ə)rɪ] or ['trɪkəri]
Definition
(noun.) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).
(noun.) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.
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Definition
(n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Deception, fraud, artifice, deceitfulness, knavery, chicane, chicanery.[2]. Legerdemain, sleight of hand.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Deception, fraud, artifice, chicanery, knavery,[See ARTIFICE]
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Examples
- In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was impossible to stifle the consequences of that process for ever by political trickery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But such is the wretched trickery of hole-and- corner Buffery! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- For a long time some people thought there was trickery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The remark was so pointed that Caliphronas winced, but at once smiled gayly and replied in the same vein,— Venus and Hermes—Love and Trickery! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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