Entry Word: trickery

Function: noun

Meaning: the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end <Delia resorted to trickery—even loading up the fishing equipment—to induce her dog into the car for his vet appointment>

Synonyms artifice, chicanery, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, subterfuge, wile

Related Words artfulness, caginess, craftiness, cunning, deviousness, foxiness, shadiness, sharpness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, treachery, underhandedness, wiliness; deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, guile, hypocrisy, insincerity; fakery, humbuggery, imposture, quackery; design, plotting, scheming, secrecy, stealth