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TRICKERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Synonyms:
chicane; chicanery; guile; shenanigan; trickery; wile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("trickery" is a kind of...):
deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation (the act of deceiving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trickery"):
dupery; fraud; fraudulence; hoax; humbug; put-on (something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage)
jugglery (artful trickery designed to achieve an end)
Derivation:
trick (deceive somebody)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
Synonyms:
hanky panky; hocus-pocus; jiggery-pokery; skulduggery; skullduggery; slickness; trickery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("trickery" is a kind of...):
deceit; deception; misrepresentation (a misleading falsehood)
Derivation:
trick (deceive somebody)
