trickery

Plural: trickeries

Noun

• The practice of using cunning or deceit to achieve a goal.
• 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.

Examples

• Accusations of "TRICKERY" arose when a player’s phone "accidentally" displayed the word list.

Synonyms

chicane, chicanery, guile, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, shenanigan, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, wile, deception

Related Words

treachery