Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.
Synonyms
Examples for "trickery"
Examples for "trickery"
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The result is teasingly brilliant and prefigures some of postmodernism's best trickery.
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His trickery and pace on the flank caused Motherwell problems all game.
3
The speed humps and one-way systems added a new layer of trickery.
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Beatrice studied the document, and in silence canvassed the possibilities of trickery.
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This makes the cultivation of the love of trickery the more dangerous.
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If high-end financial skulduggery were that straightforward we'd all be at it.
2
I can't remember the last time I read claims of such old-fashioned skulduggery.
3
Tells about the patent war and other skulduggery practiced by Shaffner.
4
Like the best-laid skulduggery, it's hard to see how this one can fail.
5
In the legal blogosphere there were accusations of old boys' networks and skulduggery.
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And it's the kind of slickness of, that I'm just suspicious of.
2
Distracted, he moved by instinct, parting her and stroking through her slickness.
3
First the martial music, and then the buttery slickness of the announcer.
4
We took turns wiping some of the sweat and slickness from us.
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But it was different this time: the cold slickness of latex was gone.
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There is some hocus-pocus about everything you do in the army.
2
To this end Mephistopheles devises the elaborate hocus-pocus of the Mothers.
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Sorry about the hocus-pocus, but there is too much at stake.
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Otherwise hocus-pocus alone prospers, and he who does forgive it is not forgiven.
5
So the padre does some hocus-pocus and commands the demon to haul ass.
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Are we sure the third wasn't also into the hanky panky?
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You mean you want an explanation of this hanky panky.
3
There is some hanky panky with a seedy actor whom she has never much liked.
4
You can leave the two of them alone and you never have to worry about any hanky panky.
5
No hanky panky going on so he squeezed into the room he had a empty suitcase in his hand.
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Hip-hop by way of Johannesburg jive, Mexican Mariachi and hillbilly jiggery-pokery.
2
Hadn't there been some jiggery-pokery with his books in London?
3
But that doesn't stop a bit of gay jiggery-pokery.
4
And here's your present, all exactly as you asked this time and no jiggery-pokery to it.
5
His fiscal jiggery-pokery has been fully exposed.
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At rather great expense and with devious skullduggery engineered by your Lady Lasthenia.
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High-finance shenanigans are involved, notably skullduggery by the American financier John P Milligan.
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It never occurred to the connivers that skullduggery went both ways.
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Shifting the blame for domestic woes on to foreign skullduggery is well established practice.
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Liberal and conservative justices alike have criticized gerrymandering as a form of partisan skullduggery.
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Lieutenant, despite the sabotage and political skullduggery, I am glad to have you here.
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It had small-town villains and small-town gossip and, he thought, small-town skullduggery as well.
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I'd hold out for twenty percent, Mrs. Pemberton, really make him pay for his skullduggery.
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I tell you the hull world's full of skullduggery.
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Much of this skullduggery has focused on two little boys, now grown into 20-year-old men.
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Engaged upon his skullduggery in or near Rainbow Falls!
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Some within the multibillion-dollar college-sports industry therefore resort to skullduggery to attract the best student athletes.
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And even if Trump did find genuine skullduggery and contest election results, it might not matter.
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Naturally, he knew far more about computer-intrusion and digital skullduggery than any previously published cyberpunk author.
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But I knew, with a child's instinctive grasp of adult skullduggery, where all this was going.
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Discipline and skullduggery will both be needed.