Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The practice or use of tricks; deception by stratagem.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The practice of tricks or deceits; artifice; imposture.
Wiktionary
- n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
WordNet 3.0
- n. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
- n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Examples
“On the way, the spy had fully informed him as to what he called the trickery of Laurence and Michu.”
“The virtual kidnappings are characterized by trickery.”
“All in all, this bit of trickery is just a bad idea plain and simple.”
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“To denigrate any of her wins as being the result of some sort of trickery is to denigrate those, like me, who voted for her believing her to be the best candidate.”
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““What trickery is this?” demanded the priest, rising as his confusion turned to frustration.”
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“Such trickery is the stock in trade of the crumbling, compensatory elitist, who's profound inner insecurity demands everyone else is duped and screwed to fabricate and sustain the con artists's - inevitably disintegrating - personna as of the cleverest of them all.”
“Neither magic nor trickery is required to produce this take on the traditional Armenian giant cracker.”
“No proxy or server trickery is required. delicious has already said that this functionality will, most likely, have to wrapped in specific widget format, or as Niall wrote, … may be shut down if not used in full Yahoo-constructed blog sidebar badge form.”
“And what little cinematic trickery is here is fairly obvious, most notably the clumsy insert shots of Welles during his lunch with the two former co-stars.”
“The ideal journal is backed up by men who are far-sighted enough to perceive that success through trickery is short lived, and that character is the only foundation upon which an enduring structure can be built.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trickery’.
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This is not a list
you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 159 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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junemoonchild's Favorite Words
Aubrey, astrology, Cancer, Taurus, dybbuk, enchantress, love, mystery, mysteriarch, spirit, melancholy, disintegration and 129 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
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Loaded Dice
Off the straight and narrow; less than straight arrow.
chicanery, sophistry, pilfer, rook, diddle, fleece, grift, poach, rustle, pinch, abscond, steal and 140 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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words I like for one reason or another
nostalgia, corgi, ambiguous, anachronistic, bamboozled, eloquent, emporium, sacrosanct, nascent, obfuscate, miscellaneous, kaleidoscopic and 113 more...
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tralala's Words
arch, enigmatic, inexplicable, captivating, merry, advantageous, appropriate, compelling, alluring, wicked, inept, douse and 200 more...
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c.ylv
sorcery, whitcraft, obscure, semantic, fortuitous, trickery, deception, doubt, reborrowing, practise, hence, sorcerer and 4 more...
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a ruse by any other name
design, ruse, subterfuge, plot, ploy, cunning plan, strategem, scheme, conspiracy, intrigue, contrivance, treachery and 51 more...
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Great Race Horse Names4
Poetry in motion
them there eyes, comprise, guessing game, orientate me, unbridled mango, voracious, swordsmith, war torn, smooth it over, wisp, parallax, secretly taken and 65 more...
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