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Meanings of trickery in English
Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.
Synonyms
Examples for "guile"
Examples for "guile"
1
So he took the serpent for the workshop of his own guile.
2
There was no guile, no malevolence in the working of the city.
3
It was incapable of guile, and perhaps that gave him an advantage.
4
Blessed is the man in whose spirit there is no guile, Psal.
5
Between them they resolved to take the place by strategy and guile.
1
Every wile known to beauty had been employed in a hundred sieges.
2
He possessed a voice that could wile a bird off a bought.
3
You looked for wile, for cunning, for self-seeking,-andthey were not there.
4
Beware Edward's false smile, beware Clarence's fickle faith, beware Gloucester's inscrutable wile!
5
I suppose that he indulged in a flirtation to wile away the time.
1
The suit proceeded with all the languor and chicanery of the period.
2
It was six weeks of chicanery, drinking, prostitution, deal-making, vote-peddling, and corruption.
3
The organized workers not only distrust the politician but detest political chicanery.
4
Or would you say that subtlety, chicanery, trickery, were here at work?
5
Else why this double dealing, this deceit, this chicanery, these hollow professions?
1
The new recruit in the army of business chicane nodded his head.
2
But the present extravagant proposition can only lead to chicane and quarrels.
3
You want a field for your remarkable talent for conspiracy and chicane.
4
Roebuck was the keystone of the arch that sustained the structure of chicane.
5
Coming out of the chicane the Frenchman overcooked it and crashed.
1
That shenanigan was duly hit with a fine from the Federal Communications Commission.
2
Nor did they ever catch anybody else involved in the shenanigan.
3
The change to the euro will be difficult enough without such shenanigans.
4
Forget about the unholy shenanigans up in Omagh a few weeks ago.
5
Welch, however, sometimes goes a bit overboard with the shenanigans and mugging.
Usage of trickery in English
1
The result is teasingly brilliant and prefigures some of postmodernism's best trickery.
2
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.
4
Beatrice studied the document, and in silence canvassed the possibilities of trickery.
5
This makes the cultivation of the love of trickery the more dangerous.
6
But in response to questions from WIRED, Bkav denied any such trickery.
7
It is impossible that there can be any trickery in the matter.
8
It might have been part of her trickery; he could not tell.
9
He was above and beyond all deceit and trickery and personal selfishness.
10
Thus it seemed to him anything but intelligent to believe in trickery.
11
Can it be, despite our recent friendship, you suspect some foul trickery?
12
He had perceived the trickery, the dissimulation and hypocrisy of Roman priestcraft.
13
The story of her trickery and her exposure would run through Aix.
14
With nothing to lose, the Jets started the game with some trickery.
15
Sony's cameras have just one lens, so some digital trickery is required.
16
Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery.
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Translations for trickery
Portuguese
Trickery through the time
Trickery across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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