| 单词 | trickery |
| 释义 | trickery (once / 3681 pages) n When tricks of any kind are used to fool or deceive someone, especially for financial gain, that's trickery. If you suspect that a cute kid has scammed you out of twenty dollars, you have every right to accuse him of trickery. Trickery is using pretense or sleight of hand or fast talking to cheat a person out of some amount of money, the way a card sharp or a con man might do. The earliest use of trick was in this negative sense — a mean ruse or cheat. Trickery simply adds the Middle English ery to the end to form a new noun. WORD FAMILYtrickery: trickeries+/trick: tricked, tricker, trickery, tricking, tricks, trickster, tricksy, tricky/tricker: trickers/trickster: tricksters/tricksy: tricksily/tricky: trickier, trickiest, trickily, trickiness USAGE EXAMPLESThe resulting dish also puts up a good argument that deeply satisfying vegan cooking doesn’t require technical trickery or a library of esoteric pantry staples. Washington Post(Nov 18, 2016) After playing for a while — but before they realized the trickery — the students started showing anxiety responses before drawing from the penalizing decks. Time(Nov 14, 2016) Social media users are thoroughly unimpressed with the apparent digital trickery. BBC(Nov 10, 2016) 1n the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) Syn|Hypo|Hyper chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage juggleryartful trickery designed to achieve an end goldbrickanything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation the act of deceiving 2n verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way Syn|Hyper hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness deceit, deception, misrepresentation a misleading falsehood |
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