Trickery \Trick"er*y\, n.
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud;
imposture.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
trickery
n 1: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you
in some way [syn: hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky
panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery]
2: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
money from them) [syn: chicanery, chicane, guile, wile,
shenanigan]
WordNet (r) 2.0
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "trickery":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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