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trickerynoun the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an endDelia resorted to trickery—even loading up the fishing equipment—to induce her dog into the car for his vet appointment artifice, chicane, chicanery, gamesmanship, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, wile artfulness, caginess(also cageyness), craftiness, cunning, deviousness, foxiness, oiliness, shadiness, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, treachery, underhandedness, wilinesscrookedness, crookery, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, guile, guilefulness, hypocrisy, insincerityfakery, humbuggery, imposture, quackerydirty pool, dirty tricksdesign, plotting, scheming, secrecy, stealth artlessness, forthrightness, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sinceritycandidness, candor, directness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness deception, fraud, double-dealing, subterfuge, trickery mean the acts or practices of one who deliberately deceives.deception may or may not imply blameworthiness, since it may suggest cheating or merely tactical resource.magicians are masters of deception fraud always implies guilt and often criminality in act or practice.indicted for fraud double-dealing suggests treachery or at least action contrary to a professed attitude.a go-between suspected of double-dealing subterfuge suggests the adoption of a stratagem or the telling of a lie in order to escape guilt or to gain an end.obtained the papers by subterfuge trickery implies ingenious acts intended to dupe or cheat.resorted to trickery to gain their ends in 1796 |