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Trickery

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Noun

1. hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery

verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

2. chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile

the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Trickery

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noun plural -eries

the practice or an instance of using tricks

he obtained the money by trickery

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Trickery

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nounWord forms: plural ˈtrickeries

the act or practice of tricking; use of tricks; deception; fraud

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Trickery

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n. pl. trick·er·ies

The practice or use of tricks; deception by stratagem.

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