Dictionary

trickery en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈtɹɪ.kə.ɹi/ (US)

Etymology

From trick + -ery, first recorded in 1719.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
   • [H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase. 1809, Washington Irving, chapter 47, in Knickerbocker's History of New York:
   • 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:
   • In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. 1852, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House:
2. (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.
3. (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
   • French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline. 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:

Forms

Deriveds

politrickery · trickeration · electrickery

Relateds

treachery

Synonyms

jugglery · fiddle · fraudulence · Punic faith · fraudulency · perfidy · hocus-pocus · underhandedness · fraudulence · underhandedness · deception · hype · prestidigitation · deceit · list · mislead · trickery · rinky-dink · sleight of hand · dissimulation · subterfuge · deceit · dupery · trickery · deceptiveness · swack · deceitfulness · imposition · legerdemain · ruse · duplicity · fetch

Translations (64)

pt falcatrua (underhanded behavior) · scn ingannu (underhanded behavior) · it accalappiamento (underhanded behavior) · hy օյինբազություն (underhanded behavior) · no fusk (underhanded behavior) · cmn 權謀 /权谋 (underhanded behavior) · ga imeartas (underhanded behavior) · ga cúinseacht (underhanded behavior) · fro engignement (underhanded behavior) · la urbānitās (underhanded behavior) · bg измама (underhanded behavior) · ru уло́вка (underhanded behavior) · fro tricerie (underhanded behavior) · hi झाँसा (underhanded behavior) · ur دم (underhanded behavior) · cmn 詭計 /诡计 (underhanded behavior) · es superchería (underhanded behavior) · fi hämäys (underhanded behavior) · ga aisiléireacht (underhanded behavior) · fr magouillage (underhanded behavior) · grc μαγγανεία (underhanded behavior) · txb kuhākäññe (underhanded behavior) · la circumventiō (underhanded behavior) · de Betrügerei (underhanded behavior) · ga bobaireacht (underhanded behavior) · fro engin (underhanded behavior) · la calumnia (underhanded behavior) · uk обман (underhanded behavior) · uk ошуканство (underhanded behavior) · fr tricherie (underhanded behavior) · ru обма́н (underhanded behavior) · ru надува́тельство (underhanded behavior) · nl bedriegerij (underhanded behavior) · hi धोखा (underhanded behavior) · sv falskspel (underhanded behavior) · gl falcatrúa (underhanded behavior) · bg хитрина (underhanded behavior) · la stratēgēma (underhanded behavior) · ga cleasaíocht (underhanded behavior) · es trapisonda (underhanded behavior) · ga ealaíontacht (underhanded behavior) · gl falcatruada (underhanded behavior) · cy dichell (underhanded behavior) · cy twyll (underhanded behavior) · ang fleard (underhanded behavior) · pt fraude (underhanded behavior) · ca engany (underhanded behavior) · ga camrasáin (underhanded behavior) · it trappoleria (underhanded behavior) · ga draíodóireacht (underhanded behavior) · la dolus (underhanded behavior) · it accalappiatura (underhanded behavior) · es triquiñuela (underhanded behavior) · ko 기만 (underhanded behavior) · bn কেরদানী (underhanded behavior) · uk шахрайство (underhanded behavior) · ga lúbaireacht (underhanded behavior) · hu fortélyosság (underhanded behavior) · ja 細工 (underhanded behavior) · yo àgálámàṣà (underhanded behavior) · it tiro mancino (underhanded behavior) · ga gleacaíocht (underhanded behavior) · it inganno (underhanded behavior) · ga ciolmamúta (underhanded behavior)