trickery
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artifice, chicane, chicanery, gamesmanship, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, wile
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Atleti's new signing Kieran Trippier crossed for Alvaro Morata to head home the opening goal, before Felix's trickery -- a run which started with a nutmeg inside his own half -- won a penalty in the second period. — Matias Grez, CNN, "Europe's next generation of football stars shine across the continent," 19 Aug. 2019 Denver showcased a flash of trickery during goal-line scrimmage periods with running back Royce Freeman once throwing incomplete and direct snaps to running back Devontae Booker and Rypien. — Kyle Fredrickson, The Denver Post, "Broncos training camp rewind, Day 12: No panic over Drew Lock’s preseason performance," 4 Aug. 2019 But the probe has turned into a protracted, fraught push by USC to clear its ranks of any students who were complicit in the trickery Singer carried out to sneak them into the highly selective school. — Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times, "How many students cheated to get into USC? A look inside the admissions investigation," 16 July 2019 But for all the attention to detail, the trickery partly fell apart over a simple social nuance. — Washington Post, "How scammers used a silicone mask and Skype to impersonate a French minister and steal $90 million," 21 June 2019 The Warriors declined to comment on Monday when asked about Laub’s trickery. — Jon Becker, The Mercury News, "Warriors fan reveals how he was able to sneak into courtside seats," 23 July 2019 The robocall epidemic starts with spoofers, fraudulent callers whose technological trickery allows them to simulate existing numbers that are not their own – perhaps the local police department, or just a neighbor with a matching area code. — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, "Other voices: Taking the fight to robocallers," 11 July 2019 The ping pong scenes all look natural, but there’s so much of Bob’s trickery. — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al.com, "35 fascinating facts about ‘Forrest Gump’," 25 June 2019 The handsome lighting models and per-object motion blur from Quantum Break are back for this newer game, as well, only with even more tantalizing distortion and color trickery. — Sam Machkovech And Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, "The best games, demos, and tech of E3 2019," 14 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'trickery.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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