trickery

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
2. (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.
3. (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.

Synonyms

fraud

deception

deceit

trick

guile

swindle

cunning

cheating

artifice

stratagem

wiles

imposture

chicanery

finesse

scam

jugglery

cheat

skulduggery

wile

villainy

swindling

skullduggery

sham

shenanigan

roguery

hoax

chicane

trap

🪤

treachery

deceiving

tactics

technique

subterfuge

swindler

hocus-pocus

hanky panky

strategy

game

slickness

fallacy

slyness

craft

dupery

cozenage

means

counterfeit

dirty trick

humbug

delusion

con

Translations

Betrug

inganno

απάτη

kunstgreep

tricherie

engaño

foefje

kneep

ruse

fourberie

artifice

fraudatio

bedriegerij

List

supercherie

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹɪ.kə.ɹi/

Etymology

From trick + -ery, first recorded in 1719.