Trickery is an English word with synonyms like deceit or deception. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Trickery in a sentence
Trickery meaning
- Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
- The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.
- Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
Synonyms of Trickery
Using Trickery
- The main meaning on this page is: Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior. | The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense. | Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
- Useful related words include: deceit, deception, shenanigan, wile.
- In the example corpus, trickery often appears in combinations such as: of trickery, and trickery, trickery to.
Context around Trickery
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Trickery
- In this selection, "trickery" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, used, algorthmic, five, now and domain stand out and add context to how "trickery" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all this trickery was the and an old trickery one that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "trickery" sits close to words such as abacha, acetate and adl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with trickery
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Let's end with some trickery. (6 words)
What happened to accurate passes and football trickery? (8 words)
Cleric domains cover many aspects, including Knowledge and Trickery. (9 words)
Jefferson's third intent, similar to the cherry-tree allegory, was meant to burnish a hallowed legacy for our nation’s first president, who, in truth, co-opted the seat of government from New York for personal profit and through trickery. (41 words)
He showed out in preseason (seven catches for 87 yards and two touchdowns vs. the Giants) and though he was cut so New England could do some roster trickery, he eventually did make it onto the 53-man roster. (39 words)
But recording the money, falsely, as legal fees subjected Cohen to significant income-tax liability — meaning that any trickery the men engaged in may actually have benefitted state and federal coffers. (31 words)
What happened to accurate passes and football trickery? (8 words)
With all the gift-wrapping trickery in the world, can you ever disguise a truly rubbish present? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
Allison Johnson points out that there is a lot of algorthmic trickery now in mobile photography.
At level five, Trickery Domain Clerics gain "Bestow Curse" and "Fear" as Domain Spells.
But recording the money, falsely, as legal fees subjected Cohen to significant income-tax liability — meaning that any trickery the men engaged in may actually have benefitted state and federal coffers.
Cleric domains cover many aspects, including Knowledge and Trickery.
He demanded that the entire match be cancelled, alleging trickery and an incompetent referee.
Herman alleged that Woods and his staff used “trickery” to get her out of the home she shared with the golfer — and lock her out for good.
He showed out in preseason (seven catches for 87 yards and two touchdowns vs. the Giants) and though he was cut so New England could do some roster trickery, he eventually did make it onto the 53-man roster.
It might take an exhibition offering more than just crafty visual trickery to pull New Yorkers from their urban warrens up the Hudson Valley in the sweaty days of late summer.
It’s an old trickery, one that fools the game’s frivolous fans, and there are many around these days.
Jefferson's third intent, similar to the cherry-tree allegory, was meant to burnish a hallowed legacy for our nation’s first president, who, in truth, co-opted the seat of government from New York for personal profit and through trickery.
One of the convicts, James Mark allegedly runs a Yahoo Academy where he trains youngsters in the craft of trickery and fraud in cyberspace.
She claimed she and Woods had an 11-year oral tenancy agreement that he violated when he used “trickery” to lock her out of his home in Hobe Sound, Fla.
The French winger did bamboozle Tavernier with some twisting trickery before crossing for Nisbet to send a downward header wide.
What happened to accurate passes and football trickery?
With all the gift-wrapping trickery in the world, can you ever disguise a truly rubbish present?
But he does hope that Hollywood considers what his hologram trickery can do.
Let's end with some trickery.
One of the first to document all this trickery was the British biologist Edward Poulton, in his 1890 work The Colours of Animals.
Such deepfake trickery can involve replacing someone’s face in a video with that of a different person and manipulation of the person’s voice.
The Jets resorted to trickery in the second half, opening with an onside kick.
Common combinations with trickery
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of trickery 11×
- and trickery 9×
- trickery to 8×
- trickery and 6×
- trickery in 6×
- some trickery 4×
- to trickery 4×
- trickery the 3×
- trickery can 3×
- his trickery 3×