trickery

trickery
Synonyms and related words:
art, artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, blind, bravery, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, chiffon, clinquant, collusion, conjuration, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, covin, craft, craftiness, cute trick, deceit, deception, design, device, dodge, dodgery, double-cross, double-dealing, duplicity, escamotage, evasiveness, expedient, fakement, feint, festoons, fetch, finery, flippancy, folderol, foofaraw, foul play, fraud, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, frivolity, froufrou, fuss, gaiety, gambit, game, gaudery, gilding, gilt, gimmick, gingerbread, grift, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, hokey-pokey, imposture, intrigue, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, juggling, knavery, legerdemain, levity, little game, machination, maneuver, merriment, monkey business, move, mumbo jumbo, paste, pettifoggery, pettifogging, pinchbeck, playfulness, plot, ploy, prankishness, pranksomeness, prestidigitation, racket, red herring, roguishness, ruse, scheme, sharp practice, shift, shiftiness, shrewdness, skulduggery, sleight, sleight of hand, slyness, sportiveness, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, supercherie, superfluity, swindling, tactic, tinsel, trappings, trick, trickiness, trumpery, underhand dealing, underhandedness, waggery, waggishness, wile, wily device

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  • Trickery — Trick er*y, n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • trickery — index artifice, collusion, deceit, deception, duplicity, falsification, frame up, fraud, hoax …   Law dictionary

  • trickery — 1800, from TRICK (Cf. trick) + ERY (Cf. ery) …   Etymology dictionary

  • trickery — *deception, double dealing, chicanery, chicane, fraud Analogous words:t *deceit, dissimulation, guile, cunning, duplicity: *imposture, cheat, fraud, sham, fake, humbug, counterfeit …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • trickery — [n] deception, joke bait and switch*, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, con, deceit, dishonesty, dodge, double cross*, double dealing*, dupery, fast shuffle*, flimflam*, fourberie, fraud, funny business*, guile, hoax, imposture, pretense,… …   New thesaurus

  • trickery — [trik′ər ē] n. pl. trickeries the act or practice of tricking; use of tricks; deception; fraud SYN. DECEPTION …   English World dictionary

  • trickery — [[t]trɪ̱kəri[/t]] N UNCOUNT Trickery is the use of dishonest methods in order to achieve something. They are notorious for resorting to trickery in order to impress their clients …   English dictionary

  • trickery — noun she suspects me of trickery Syn: deception, deceit, dishonesty, cheating, duplicity, double dealing, legerdemain, sleight of hand, guile, craftiness, deviousness, subterfuge, skulduggery, chicanery, fraud, fraudulence, swindling; formal… …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • trickery — trick ► NOUN 1) a cunning or skilful act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone. 2) a skilful act performed for entertainment. 3) an illusion: a trick of the light. 4) (before another noun ) intended to mystify or trick: a trick question …   English terms dictionary

  • trickery — noun Date: 1796 the practice of crafty underhanded ingenuity to deceive or cheat Synonyms: see deception …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • trickery — /trik euh ree/, n., pl. trickeries. 1. the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception. 2. a trick used to deceive. [1790 1800; TRICK + ERY] Syn. 1. See deceit. * * * …   Universalium

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