English noun: trickery |
1. | trickery (communication) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way |
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| Synonyms | hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | deceit, deception, misrepresentation |
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2. | trickery (act) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
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| Synonyms | chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile |
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| Broader (hypernym) | deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, jugglery, put-on |
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