Trickery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Trickery \Trick"er*y\, n.
     The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud;
     imposture.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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