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

An English springer spaniel in Alabama loves nothing more than spending her whole day in the pool and has taken to tricking her parents into letting her into the pool every day. — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026

In many cases, the robot tail wags the living dog by tricking it—tricking us—into caring about obscure metrics, then gamifying the process of improving them. — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026

Children were taken by tricking mothers, who were told their baby had died during childbirth. — Ashoka, Forbes.com, 28 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