'Trickery' definitions:
Definition of 'trickery'
(from WordNet)
noun
Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery]
noun
The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan]
Definition of 'Trickery'
From: GCIDE
- Trickery \Trick"er*y\, n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'trickery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- blind,
- bravery,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chiffon,
- clinquant,
- collusion,
- conjuration,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- design,
- device,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- double-cross,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- escamotage,
- evasiveness,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- feint,
- festoons,
- fetch,
- finery,
- flippancy,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- foul play,
- fraud,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- frivolity,
- froufrou,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- gambit,
- game,
- gaudery,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gimmick,
- gingerbread,
- grift,
- guile,
- hanky-panky,
- hocus-pocus,
- hokey-pokey,
- imposture,
- intrigue,
- jiggery-pokery,
- jugglery,
- juggling,
- knavery,
- legerdemain,
- levity,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- merriment,
- monkey business,
- move,
- mumbo jumbo,
- paste,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- pinchbeck,
- playfulness,
- plot,
- ploy,
- prankishness,
- pranksomeness,
- prestidigitation,
- racket,
- red herring,
- roguishness,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- slyness,
- sportiveness,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- superfluity,
- swindling,
- tactic,
- tinsel,
- trappings,
- trick,
- trickiness,
- trumpery,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness,
- waggery,
- waggishness,
- wile,
- wily device