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noun
Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: dishonesty, fakery, fraud, trickery, subterfuge
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An individual act of trickery or deception.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: trickery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
Narrower terms: fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on, jugglery
History
From French chicanerie (“trickery”), from chicaner, from Middle French chicaner, borrowed from Middle Low German schicken, from Old Saxon *skikkian, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan (“to order, arrange”). Related to German schicken (“to send, ship”), Middle English skekken (“to send forth, issue”).
Across languages
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