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

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

Filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski find an enchanting balance between storybook allure and adult trickery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

But if anyone had that skill it would be a child of Hermes, god of trickery.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

From Time Magazine Archive

You are, I see, the same, whatever changes time may have made in me; but I have outlived these trickeries.

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

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 Ruskin, John

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 Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

After this Jacob served for Rachel also, and then the remainder of the chapter of Jacob's servitude to Laban is but the recital of a series of frauds and trickeries.

From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles