trickery

When Healey resigned earlier this month, his allies had claimed that "Treasury trickery" had in effect inflated the money that appeared to be attached to the investment plan.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

As to the trickery itself, the proof is in the pudding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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

The next day the hunter performed his trickery and lured the herd into an open ing.

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

Meet me as a man and keep those trickeries for those who have not the clear sight.

From Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton

Although apparently innocent and in accord with the laws and customs of the times, Astor's real estate transactions were inseparably connected with consecutive evasions, trickeries, frauds and violations of law.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus

When domesticated, its droll trickeries and capability of imitating the human voice and other sounds are well known.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns

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