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
• catching
• cheating
• spoofing
• 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
• leading one up the garden path
• 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
• bleeding
• squeezing
• mulcting
• chiseling
• rooking
• chiselling
• 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

The perfectly still water creates a flawless mirror image of the stalactites above, tricking your eyes into seeing a vast, bottomless lake. —Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025

What does work is tricking her into pressing a button that knocks her out. —Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025

While the Phantom Hacker attack is designed specifically to drain your bank accounts, there are plenty of variants relying on tricking you into installing dangerous software that either gives an attacker a view of your device or hijacks it completely. —Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025

The bad actors utilized a common cyber method—contacting employees by text or phone and pretending to be from IT or human resources—with the goal of tricking those employees to give up sensitive personal information or account access. —John Kell, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025

Scammers obtained the money by tricking victims into believing that their grandchildren or close family members were in trouble and desperately needed money, a scheme the FBI calls a grandparent scam. —Michael Loria, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025

Social engineering attacks typically involve tricking employees into revealing passwords or installing malicious software that gives attackers access to internal systems. —Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025