- trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery - verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
--1 is a kind of misrepresentation, deceit, deception
Derived form: verb trick1 - trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
--2 is a kind of deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
--2 has particulars:fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on; jugglery Derived form: verb trick1