trickery

Just like last year, when New Zealand drew first blood, the visitors came roaring out, punishing a penalty given away cheaply with a piece of trickery at a close-range line-out that bamboozled the Scots.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

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

His trickery and creativity was on display throughout against Fulham, along with an impressive work-rate.

From BBC ● Aug. 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

That left Annabeth’s favorite tactics: trickery, talk, delay.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But Dingane was becoming weary of them and their trickeries.

From The Induna's Wife by Bertram Mitford

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

With every year of her growth this principle of attention to outside trickeries and fineries is more rigidly pursued.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun

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