trickery
noun
the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
trickeries
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pluralof trickery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
Although apparently innocent and in accord with the laws and customs of the times, Astor's real estate transactions were inseparably connected with consecutive evasions, trickeries, frauds and violations of law.
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus
But—for the time, at least—these things were no more than mere trickeries of self-torment for Paul's mind, and he was on fire to meet the mid-day.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
With every year of her growth this principle of attention to outside trickeries and fineries is more rigidly pursued.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
After this Jacob served for Rachel also, and then the remainder of the chapter of Jacob’s servitude to Laban is but the recital of a series of frauds and trickeries.
From Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
