Definitions for trickery
ˈtrɪk ə ritrick·e·ry

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1. trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggerynoun

   verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

2. trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigannoun

   the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

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1. trickerynoun

   The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

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1. 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.

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1. Trickerynoun

   the art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture

How to pronounce trickery?

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How to say trickery in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of trickery in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of trickery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of trickery in a Sentence

1. Donald Langevoort:

   I don’t know if there is an organization or orchestrator that is using deceit and trickery, especially when the motivation seems to be ‘Let’s support GameStop and show them,’ the SEC has to take a deep breath and ask itself whether it has a strong enough case to put a stop to this.

2. Dave Carney:

   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.

3. Tuncay Ulu:

   This is trickery, they treat people like herds. It has no impact because people know what they are doing.

4. Daniel Dromm:

   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.

5. Martin Terman:

   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.

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