trickeries
- plural of trickery.
Example Sentences
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But trickeries of some sort existed on all the popular TV quizzes, not just Twenty-One.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trickeries of the hustings were distasteful to him.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Roger, Charles
And could Hugo have descended to the trickeries of the eleven-pence-halfpenny draper, who proclaimed non-existent bargains to lure the unwary into his shop?
From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Bennett, Arnold
All the perpetrators of the crime, except Madame de la Motte, confessed to their share in it; so the whole series of gigantic cheats and trickeries was exposed.
From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Orpen, Mrs Goddard
But it irks me too bitterly to see this wicked knave, who by his trickeries has taken away all my customers, so amusing himself with my misery.”
From Flemish Legends by Coster, Charles de
