1. (noun)trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way Synonyms: trickery, hocus-pocus, guile, wile, glibness, slip, skullduggery, jiggery-pokery, slipperiness, shenanigan, chicane, slickness, slick, hanky panky, skulduggery, chicanery
2. (noun)trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) Synonyms: deceitfulness, trickery, cunning, wile, hocus-pocus, devilment, rascality, skullduggery, devilry, jiggery-pokery, roguishness, slickness, mischief-making, chicanery, mischievousness, shenanigan, craftiness, guile, hanky panky, foxiness, roguery, wiliness, craft, mischief, slyness, deviltry, skulduggery, chicane
Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'trickery'
English Synonyms and Antonyms
1. trickery Deceit is the habit, deception the act; guile applies to the disposition out of which deceit and deception grow, and also to their actual practise. A lie, lying, or falsehood, is the Synonyms: deception, craft, dissimulation, finesse, lie, cunning, double-dealing, fraud, lying, deceit, duplicity, guile, prevarication, deceitfulness, fabrication, hypocrisy, trickery, delusion, falsehood, imposition, untruth Antonyms: candor, frankness, honesty, simplicity, truth, fair dealing, guilelessness, openness, sincerity, veracity