What does trickery mean?
Definitions for trickery
ˈtrɪk ə ritrick·e·ry
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Princeton's WordNet
trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggerynoun
verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigannoun
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Wiktionary
trickerynoun
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Wikipedia
trickery
In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, human or anthropomorphisation) who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior.
ChatGPT
trickery
Trickery is the act of using deceptive or deceitful means to achieve a desired result, often dishonestly manipulating others for personal gain or advantage. It involves misleading practices, such as lying, cheating, or manipulating truths, and establishes a lack of trust or integrity.
Webster Dictionary
Trickerynoun
the art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of trickery in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of trickery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of trickery in a Sentence
We're just running at full throttle to try to jack turnout on March 1. It's very simple. There's no trickery or' strategery' or bank shots. It's just straight up turn out Out The Vote.
In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.
The issue has never been about having a gay group in the parade, it has always been about having an Irish gay group in the parade. For the parade organizers to try to pull this trickery by allowing an organization called OUT@NBC to march in the parade is not a solution.
Its just one honest shot, theres no trickery involved, showing the time machine and hoverboard gliding down the runway together, this time we were using velcro on the bottom of the boots, which meant I could tear away from the board if I ever needed to.
This is trickery, they treat people like herds. It has no impact because people know what they are doing.
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- BetrügereiGerman
- triquiñuelaSpanish
- حیلهPersian
- hämäysFinnish
- magouillage, tricherieFrench
- lúbaireachtIrish
- दमHindi
- fortélyosságHungarian
- օյինբազությունArmenian
- trappoleria, tiro mancino, accalappiamento, inganno, accalappiaturaItalian
- רַמָאוּתHebrew
- 細工Japanese
- 기만Korean
- calumnia, urbānitās, circumventiō, dolus, stratēgēmaLatin
- bedriegerijDutch
- fuskNorwegian
- falcatrua, fraudePortuguese
- надувательство, уловка, обманRussian
- دمUrdu
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