trickery

== English == === Etymology === From trick +‎ -ery, first recorded in 1719. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Old French tricherie?”) === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪ.kə.ɹi/ === Noun === trickery (countable and uncountable, plural trickeries) (countable, uncountable) Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior. Synonyms: fraudulence, underhandedness; see also Thesaurus:deceit, Thesaurus:deception (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense. (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === “trickery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.