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trickery|ˈtrɪkərɪ| [f. trick n. + -ery.] The practice of tricks; deceitful conduct or practice; deception, artifice; imposture.
1800Parr Spital Serm. Wks. 1828 II. 394 Good sense without the trickeries of art, good language without the trappings of rhetoric. 1824Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. ix. 174 He has a great deal of real sensibility, mixed with some trickery. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Man of Many Fr. (Colburn) 91 Versed in all the experimental trickeries of science. 1881Jowett Thucyd. I. 118 We rely not upon management or trickery, but upon our own hearts and hands. |