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

Malware has evolved to target macOS more aggressively than ever and many attacks now rely on tricking users rather than breaking through security software. —Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025

Brood parasites such as cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds’ nests, tricking the hosts into caring for their offspring at the expense of their own. —Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2025

Give them reasons to keep reading, don’t try tricking them into it. —Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025

Regulators argue Amazon broke competition and consumer protection laws by tricking customers into subscribing to Prime. —Annie Palmer, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025

Netflix After Jake betrays Vince by tricking him into revealing his whereabouts to Mancuso and his lackey Babbitt (Chris Coy) to protect Vince's daughter Gen (Odessa Young) and get her to safety, Jake rushes to help Vince once again escape a vengeful Mancuso's clutches. —Megan McCluskey, Time, 18 Sep. 2025

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