trickery Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
hanky panky; skulduggery; slickness; jiggery-pokery; hocus-pocus; skullduggery.
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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
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.