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English Dictionary: trickery by the DICT Development Group
2 results for trickery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
trickery
n
  1. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
    Synonym(s): trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
  2. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
    Synonym(s): trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Trickery \Trick"er*y\, n.
      The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud;
      imposture.
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