trickery
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(noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
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Synonyms: chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile |
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Related Words: deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, jugglery, put-on |
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(noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way |
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Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness |
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Related Words: deceit, deception, misrepresentation |
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