trickery
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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
Mr. Lanchester is a magnetic writer who combines the skills of a social realist with this penchant for Nabokovian black humor and narrative trickery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski find an enchanting balance between storybook allure and adult trickery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 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
Meet me as a man and keep those trickeries for those who have not the clear sight.
From Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton
In the trickeries and mimicries of court life Bunsen was no adept, and nothing was easier than to outbid him in the price that is paid for royal favors.
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
He has completely won the confidence of the Princess, despite his obvious trickeries.
From The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play by Charles Goddard
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
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