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trickery

[trik-uh-ree] / ˈtrɪk ə ri /


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The Liverpool winger, 18, has had an exciting start to the season, catching the eye with his invention and trickery down both flanks for Andoni Iraola's side.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 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

It was all cold trickery, it was all calculated, it was all enmity.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

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

From Time Magazine Archive

With such little trickeries love runs over; but they are all guessed and forgiven; and they are often prompted more by instinct than by conscious design.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

All sorts of trickeries, too; he sent spurious telegrams and got fictitious items into the newspapers; he lied through every medium known to the highest civilization.

From Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by Constance Fenimore Woolson

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

But it irks me too bitterly to see this wicked knave, who by his trickeries has taken away all my customers, so amusing himself with my misery.”

From Flemish Legends by Charles de Coster




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