English dictionary

trickery

/'tr/I/k/@/r/i/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

noun.communication

Synonyms hanky panky hocus-pocus jiggery-pokery skulduggery skullduggery slickness

Source: WordNet 3.0
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

noun.act

Synonyms chicane chicanery guile shenanigan wile

Source: WordNet 3.0
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

noun

Source: webster1913