trickery

Apple—in its very Apple way—has also come up with some hardware and software trickery to make up for some shortcomings of the basic design.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The news of Aaron Hickey is not good, so who plays right-back against the speed and blood-curdling trickery of Vini Jr?

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

He appears to have dedicated much of his time there to putting out videos and written posts about demons and their trickery.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026

Neymar brought profile and panache to Paris but could not deliver the holy grail of European success, Denilson's trickery failed to help Real Betis beat the drop, a car crash curtailed Gigi Lentini's buccaneering brilliance.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

One day during his trickery, a small pig saw the hunter biting a plant that enabled him to return to his human form.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

But trickeries of some sort existed on all the popular TV quizzes, not just Twenty-One.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, presto! with the sudden trickeries of a mountebank the sprite who played with my destinies ushered in another unprefaced era.

From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

By now Forbes was familiar enough with the trickeries of the steps to leave his feet to their own devices.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes

As a lawyer Barlow lacked the smoothness and suavity of the practised advocate, while the petty details and trickeries of the profession disgusted him.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

It is man and his fancies, man and his trickeries, man and his inventions,—poor, paltry, weak, self-sighted man,—which the connoisseur forever seeks and worships.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin