Synonyms for trickery
ˈtrɪk ə ritrick·e·ry

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1. trickery

   Deceit is the habit, deception the act; guile applies to the disposition out of which deceit and deception grow, and also to their actual practise. A lie, lying, or falsehood, is the uttering of what one knows to be false with intent to deceive. The novel or drama is not a lie, because not meant to deceive; the ancient teaching that the earth was flat was not a lie, because not then known to be false. Untruth is more than lack of accuracy, implying always lack of veracity; but it is a somewhat milder and more dignified word than lie. Falsehood and lying are in utterance; deceit and deception may be merely in act or implication. Deception may be innocent, and even unintentional, as in the case of an optical illusion; deceit always involves injurious intent. Craft and cunning have not necessarily any moral quality; they are common traits of animals, but stand rather low in the human scale. Duplicity is the habitual speaking or acting with intent to appear to mean what one does not. Dissimulation is rather a concealing of what is than a pretense of what is not. Finesse is simply an adroit and delicate management of a matter for one's own side, not necessarily involving deceit. Compare ARTIFICE; FICTION; FRAUD; HYPOCRISY.

   Synonyms:
   craft, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, delusion, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fabrication, falsehood, finesse, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, lie, lying, prevarication, untruth

   Antonyms:
   candor, fair dealing, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth, veracity

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1. trickery

   Synonyms:
   deception, fraud, artifice, chicanery, knavery

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1. trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggerynoun

   verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

   Synonyms:
   hocus-pocus, guile, wile, glibness, slip, skullduggery, jiggery-pokery, slipperiness, shenanigan, chicane, slickness, slick, hanky panky, skulduggery, chicanery

2. trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigannoun

   the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

   Synonyms:
   deceitfulness, cunning, wile, hocus-pocus, devilment, rascality, skullduggery, devilry, jiggery-pokery, roguishness, slickness, mischief-making, chicanery, mischievousness, shenanigan, craftiness, guile, hanky panky, foxiness, roguery, wiliness, craft, mischief, slyness, deviltry, skulduggery, chicane

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1. trickerynoun

   Synonyms:
   deception, fraud, artifice, deceitfulness, knavery, chicane, chicanery

2. trickerynoun

   Synonyms:
   legerdemain, sleight of hand

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1. trickerynoun

   Synonyms:
   deception, chicanery, artifice, duplicity, machiavelianism, circumvention, indirection

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1. List of paraphrases for "trickery":

   deception, deceit, trick, ruse, fraud

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How to use trickery in a sentence?

1. Martin Terman:

   In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.

2. Donald Langevoort:

   I don’t know if there is an organization or orchestrator that is using deceit and trickery, especially when the motivation seems to be ‘Let’s support GameStop and show them,’ the SEC has to take a deep breath and ask itself whether it has a strong enough case to put a stop to this.

3. Dave Carney:

   We're just running at full throttle to try to jack turnout on March 1. It's very simple. There's no trickery or' strategery' or bank shots. It's just straight up turn out Out The Vote.

4. Sam Rogers:

   Its just one honest shot, theres no trickery involved, showing the time machine and hoverboard gliding down the runway together, this time we were using velcro on the bottom of the boots, which meant I could tear away from the board if I ever needed to.

5. Tuncay Ulu:

   This is trickery, they treat people like herds. It has no impact because people know what they are doing.