All trickery synonyms

noun trickery

• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• insidiousness — intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
• obliqueness — The characteristic of being oblique.
• hanky-panky — unethical behavior; deceit: When the bank teller bought an expensive car and house, they suspected there might be some hanky-panky going on.
• conjuring — the performance of tricks that appear to defy natural laws
• evasion — The action of evading something.
• chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
• bad faith — intention to deceive; treachery or dishonesty (esp in the phrase in bad faith)
• blow off — If you blow something off, you ignore it or choose not to deal with it.
• countermine — a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by an enemy
• art — Art consists of paintings, sculpture, and other pictures or objects which are created for people to look at and admire or think deeply about.
• gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
• caginess — cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.
• bon mot — A bon mot is a clever, witty remark.
• foxiness — The characteristic or quality of being foxy.
• conjury — magic
• beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
• defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
• coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
• hocus — to play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
• intrigue — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
• hocus-pocus — a meaningless chant or expression used in conjuring or incantation.
• disingenuity — (obsolete) disingenuousness.
• ambidextrousness — The state or quality of being ambidextrous.
• craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
• drawing card — a person who or thing that attracts attention or patrons.
• disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
• indirection — indirect action or procedure.
• quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
• copout — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• craft — You can refer to a boat, a spacecraft, or an aircraft as a craft.
• witchery — witchcraft; magic.
• counterplot — a plot designed to frustrate another plot
• dirty pool — unethical, unfair, or unsportsmanlike conduct.
• criminality — the state or quality of being criminal
• disguise — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
• dirty trick — act: unfair, dishonest
• grift — (sometimes used with a plural verb) a group of methods for obtaining money falsely through the use of swindles, frauds, dishonest gambling, etc.
• magic — the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; legerdemain; conjuring: to pull a rabbit out of a hat by magic.
• bunco — a swindle, esp one by confidence tricksters
• complot — a plot or conspiracy
• fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
• witching — a person, now especially a woman, who professes or is supposed to practice magic or sorcery; a sorceress. Compare warlock.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
• mummery — the performance of mummers.