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trickery
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Old French tricherie?”)
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /t??.k?.?i/
Noun
trickery (countable and uncountable, plural trickeries)
- (uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
- (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
- (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
- (countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
- 1898, Bret Harte, "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow:
- The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax.
- 1898, Bret Harte, "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow:
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:deception
Translations
References
- trickery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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humbuggery
English
Etymology
humbug +? -ery
Noun
humbuggery (countable and uncountable, plural humbuggeries)
- trickery; deception
- 2001, James W. Cook, The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum
- Peale, however, was never accused of humbuggery — not in his entertainments, not in his marketing strategies, and above all not in his public persona.
- 2001, James W. Cook, The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum
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