#1 trickery n. [hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery] verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way. wn
#2 trickery n. [chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan] the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them). wn
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