trickery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
    hanky panky; skulduggery; slickness; jiggery-pokery; hocus-pocus; skullduggery.
  2. noun the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
    chicanery; chicane; wile; shenanigan; guile.

WordNet


Trick"er*y noun
Definitions
  1. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

Webster 1913