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Meaning of TRICKERY

Pronunciation:  'trikuree

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
  2. [n]  verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
 
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 Synonyms: chicanery, guile, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, shenanigan, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, wile
 
 See Also: deceit, deceit, deception, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, jugglery, misrepresentation, put-on

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Trick"er*y\, n.
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud;
imposture.
 
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