What is trickery?

  • (noun): The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).
    Synonyms: chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
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Some articles on trickery:

Machiavelli As A Dramatist - Trickery
... The function of trickery appears as a central theme in Machiavelli's Commedia Erudita, Mandragola ... It is apparent that without the use of trickery in Mandragola, the characters’ endeavors would lack success ... In Mandragola, trickery is employed as a tool for fulfilling the desires of the characters ...
Ayyavazhi Mythology - Post-incarnational Events - Seizing The Power of Magic, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Trickery, Etc.
... of black magic, witchcraft, sorcery, and trickery, the spells used to bind others, and all types of esoteric charms in their possession ...
Scarred Lands - Setting - Gods
... Sun Tanil, the Huntress—CG Animal, Chaos, Luck, Plant, Travel, Trickery Hedrada, the Lawgiver—LN Judgment, Knowledge, Law, Protection Enkili, the Trickster—CN Air, Chaos, Luck ...
King Kelly - Controversy and Cheating
... He seems to have performed most just a few times and probably made a bigger mark with verbal trickery, while catcher or coacher at first or third base ... A methodical study of trickery in early baseball found Kelly cutting bases just a few more times over the rest of his career, and none at other times through 1886, his last year with Chicago ... Some of the wildest stories of his trickery were not reported contemporaneously by reporters ...
Eusapia Palladino - Naples
... No new form of trickery was discovered and Carrington warned the sitters against the old and well-known methods in a circular letter in advance ... I train all my faculties against the Medium, watching for the slightest evidence of trickery ... I do insist that woman showed genuine levitation, not by trickery but by some baffling, intangible, invisible force that radiated through her body and over which she exercised a temporary and thoroughly exhausting ...

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