trickishness

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Noun
  • The values Homer elevated, especially those of male honor and female duplicity, established parameters for the war story (and not only the war story) for centuries to come.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan publicly denounced Soviet duplicity.
    Time, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In an era of skepticism, audiences quickly detect insincerity.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • And as the secretive Jack, Travis Van Winkle oozes oily, sexist insincerity.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • His inner self is right there and raw at the surface, leaving him incapable of dissembling, which is why Lancaster Dodd likes him so much.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Well, in some ways a lot of Dylan’s fakery of his own bio has always been very amusing.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Forgeries, hoaxes, and other types of literary fakery have preoccupied Havens, a rare books and manuscripts curator at the university’s Stern Center for the History of the Book, for many years now.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Landing a good apartment in New York City can take some cunning.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Coaching successfully in such conditions requires a mixture of humility and self-confidence, as well as a certain cunning.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Creativity was sorely lacking last season, with the side mustering the lowest xG of any side to avoid relegation, but now an attacking midfield trident of Grealish, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Iliman Ndiaye brims with promise and guile.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In between is a huge chessboard for honing skills of strategy and guile while catching a tan.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Waiting for him there, fuming from a bench with an unobstructed view of the North Portico, is the living manifestation of dishonesty.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The problem isn’t that my girlfriend wouldn’t get to go, but the disrespect and dishonesty of uninviting her out of the blue and trying to cover it up as being a genuine mistake.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Over the course of eight episodes, the show traces how mounting pressures, deceit and betrayal led to patriarch Alex Murdaugh murdering his wife, Maggie, and their son, Paul, in 2021.
    Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Since the movie's release in September, the relationship between the two has soured and in the weeks leading up to the bond hearing the filmmaker in court filings accused Goudreau of deceit, financial coercion and threatening conduct.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2025
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“Trickishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trickishness. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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