trickery
Meanings
Plural: trickeries
Noun
- verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
- The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.
- Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
- An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
Origin / Etymology
From trick + -ery, first recorded in 1719.
Synonyms
chicane, chicanery, deception, guile, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, shenanigan, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, wile
Scrabble Score: 17
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