trickery
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /tɹɪ.kə.ɹi/
trickery
- (uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
- (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
- (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
- (countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
- 1898, Bret Harte, "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow:
- The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax.
- 1898, Bret Harte, "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow:
- French: tricherie, magouillage
- German: Betrügerei
- Italian: inganno, trappoleria, accalappiamento, accalappiatura, tiro mancino
- Portuguese: fraude, falcatrua
- Russian: надува́тельство
- Spanish: triquiñuela, superchería, trapisonda
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