TRICKERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trickery mean? 

• TRICKERY (noun)
  The noun TRICKERY has 2 senses:

1. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

2. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

  Familiarity information: TRICKERY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRICKERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

hanky panky; hocus-pocus; jiggery-pokery; skulduggery; skullduggery; slickness; trickery

Hypernyms ("trickery" is a kind of...):

deceit; deception; misrepresentation (a misleading falsehood)

Derivation:

trick (deceive somebody)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

chicane; chicanery; guile; shenanigan; trickery; wile

Hypernyms ("trickery" is a kind of...):

deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation (the act of deceiving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trickery"):

dupery; fraud; fraudulence; hoax; humbug; put-on (something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage)

jugglery (artful trickery designed to achieve an end)

Derivation:

trick (deceive somebody)

 Context examples 

He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

(White Fang, by Jack London)