All trickery synonyms

noun trickery

• hocuspocus — Alternative spelling of hocus-pocus.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• jugglery — the art or practice of a juggler, especially sleight of hand.
• imposition — the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
• illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• magic word — Any word that has a magical effect when uttered.
• double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• hokey-pokey — hocus-pocus; trickery.
• get-up — costume; outfit: Everyone will stare at you if you wear that getup.
• knavery — action or practice characteristic of a knave.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• cop-out — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• elusion — The act of eluding.
• decoy — If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
• eidolon — An idealized person or thing.
• wile — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• conjuration — a magic spell; incantation
• occultism — belief in the existence of secret, mysterious, or supernatural agencies.
• hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
• dupery — an act, practice, or instance of duping.
• frame up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
• legerdemain — sleight of hand.
• nark — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
• funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
• bamboozlement — The act or process of bamboozling or being bamboozled.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• wiles — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
• canniness — the quality of being canny
• wiliness — full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
• deviousness — The characteristic of being devious; sneakiness; underhandedness.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• horoscopy — Archaic. the casting or taking of horoscopes.
• fakery — the practice or result of faking.
• conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
• giveaway — an act or instance of giving something away.
• wizardry — the art, skill, or accomplishments of a wizard.
• barratry — (formerly) the vexatious stirring up of quarrels or bringing of lawsuits
• fig leaf — the leaf of a fig tree.
• diabolism — activities designed to enlist the aid of devils, esp in witchcraft or sorcery
• betrayal — A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
• frame-up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
• narks — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
• fast one — a shrewd action, especially when unscrupulous or dishonest; an unfair trick, deceitful practice, dishonest dealing, etc.: He pulled a fast one on me by paying me with a worthless check.
• boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.