Noun: trickery tri-ku-ree
- Dishonest and underhand behaviour
"The auditors uncovered financial trickery in the company's accounts";
- hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery [informal], skulduggery, skullduggery, sculduggery [rare]
- The use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose
"The lawyer's trickery in manipulating evidence was grounds for disbarment";
- chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
Derived forms: trickeries
Type of: deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, misrepresentation
Encyclopedia: Trickery