Definitions
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Word origin
From trick + -ery, first recorded in 1719.
Used in a sentence
“[H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.”
“In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.”
“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.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Deceptive tactics”8 letters
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