Noun trickery has 2 senses
  1. 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
  2. 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
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