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trickeries

trickeries is the plural of trickery.

Meaning of trickery

Noun

trickery (countable and uncountable, plural trickeries)

  1. Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
    • [H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.1809, Washington Irving, chapter 47, in Knickerbocker's History of New York
  2. (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.
  3. (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
    • French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport

Questions about trickeries

What is trickeries the plural of?
Trickeries is the plural of trickery.

Words near trickeries in the dictionary

  1. tricken bag
  2. tricken bags
  3. tricker
  4. trickeration
  5. trickerations
  6. trickeries
  7. trickers
  8. trickery
  9. trickest
  10. tricketh
  11. Trickett

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