nnoun.communicationverbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some waySynset:hanky panky hocus-pocus jiggery-pokery skulduggery skullduggery slickness
Derivationally Related Form:trickslick
Hypernyms:deceit deception misrepresentation
Inherited Hypernyms:trickerymisrepresentationfalsehoodstatementmessagecommunicationabstractionentity
nnoun.actthe use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)Synset:chicane chicanery guile shenanigan wile
Derivationally Related Form:trickwilychicane
Hypernyms:deceit deception dissembling dissimulation
Inherited Hypernyms:trickerydeceptionfalsificationwrongdoingactivityacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:duperyfraudfraudulencehoaxhumbugjuggleryput-on
Full Hyponyms:fraudgoldbrickjugglery