Synonyms of tricking

tricking

verb

present participle of trick

as in fooling

to cause to believe what is untrue

you tricked me into thinking my ex wasn't coming to the party tonight

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fooling
• deceiving
• teasing
• duping
• conning
• kidding
• deluding
• hoodwinking
• suckering
• misleading
• misinforming
• gulling
• misguiding
• bamboozling
• hoaxing
• cheating
• spoofing
• catching
• bluffing
• juggling
• humbugging
• cozening
• snookering
• stinging
• having
• burning
• gaffing
• sucking in
• beguiling
• snowing
• stringing along
• taking in
• having on
• faking out
• gammoning
• hornswoggling
• buffaloing
• doing a number on
• sticking
• defrauding
• pulling one's leg
• leading one down the garden path
• swindling
• shortchanging
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• fleecing
• hustling
• putting on
• diddling
• squeezing
• mulcting
• bleeding
• chiseling
• rooking
• skinning
• flimflamming
• euchring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposing
• revealing
• uncovering
• telling
• disclosing
• debunking
• unmasking
• divulging
• showing up
• undeceiving
• unveiling
• disabusing
• uncloaking
• disillusioning
• disenchanting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tricking

Mistruths, false claims, scams, and other deceptive efforts are tricking people into thinking that a watermark removal app will do wonders, whereas the reality is that the results are at best half-mixed or aimed to cause damage. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026

ClickFix works by tricking you into performing an action on your computer that stealthily downloads and installs malware. — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026

Residents say a woman got into their apartment by tricking the doorman of their luxury building. — Ali Bauman, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026

Football is all about engaño (trickery) — looking one way and passing the other, feinting to go left and swiftly moving right, manipulating the opposition and tricking them to open up those little spaces. — Xavi, New York Times, 19 July 2026

What’s far more eloquent is the episode with the witch Circe (a terrific Samantha Morton), whose habit of tricking and transforming men into animals is rendered in evocatively physical, body-horror-esque imagery. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 July 2026

From there Nebula chained a handful of steps to escalate the dangling pointer into full control, ending by tricking the kernel into executing their code as root. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026

While Matthew and Mu-won started Gojeuneok Bio together, Chang-ho has launched a cosmetics company that makes its money by tricking smaller companies into giving away the secrets behind their products. — Kayti Burt, Time, 29 May 2026

The church hosts sure love tricking us into eating raw broccoli by serving it up in this creamy pasta salad. — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 May 2026