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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery]
2: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1796 the practice of crafty underhanded ingenuity to deceive or cheat Synonyms: see deception

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 the practice or an instance of deception. 2 the use of tricks.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trickery Trick"er*y, n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Trickery is the use of dishonest methods in order to achieve something.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Deception, fraud, artifice, deceitfulness, knavery, chicane, chicanery, stratagem.

Moby Thesaurus

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