[
UK
/tɹˈɪkəɹi/
]
[ US /ˈtɹɪkɝi/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹɪkɝi/ ]
NOUN
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
How To Use trickery In A Sentence
- But there was an element of delusion, mild trickery even, about this process.
- Modder River, when all day long most of our men were quite unable to discover on which side of the stream the Boer entrenchments were, and in what they called clever trickery, but we called treachery, they are absolutely unsurpassable. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
- The main victim here is the “abstentionist” movement who is told that the main trickery of Chavez IS NOT the electoral registry, at least at presidential election level. Electoral registry irregularities and Perez Oramas on the uselessness of voting
- My family's name has been besmirched by your victory over me, but your trickery can't hope to save you now.
- But this isn't computer trickery. Times, Sunday Times
- Many of the great moves are down to camera trickery, but I have picked up a few party tricks! The Sun
- Show makers used green screen trickery to make the stars fly. The Sun
- The film may not be as elegant as the previous financial procedurals, and Costa-Gavras' brief forays into cinematic trickery threaten our suspension of disbelief.
- This show is the story of his short career in confidence trickery.
- Barry, it was pleasant seeing you today in the cafeteria. Barry I saw that you purchased the chef's salad. Apparently, you did not know that the chef's salad is kitchen trickery to utilize scrap meat.