trickery

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

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Buybacks aren’t accounting trickery, and they don’t starve companies of capital unless done recklessly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

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

Laila told her of his aptitude for solving riddles, his trickery and mischief, his easy laugh.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Francis, don't you see that we're not the sort of people, either of us, to put up with the deceits, the trickeries, the lies that the other thing means?

From The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Sir Hugh Walpole

It was several seconds before the trickeries of nature, in the way of echoes, terminated and matters settled down to their natural quiet.

From The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne by Edward Sylvester Ellis

But, however old, however hardened by the trickeries of passing decades, those who have loved Paris, those to whom Paris has lifted her lips in youth, these never say good-bye to her.

From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton

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 Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh