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trick
noun as in deceit
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- ambush
- artifice
- blind
- bluff
- casuistry
- cheat
- chicanery
- circumvention
- con
- concealment
- conundrum
- cover
- decoy
- delusion
- disguise
- dodge
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- equivocation
- evasion
- fabrication
- fake
- falsehood
- feint
- forgery
- game
- imposition
- imposture
- intrigue
- invention
- machination
- perjury
- pretense
- snare
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- swindle
- treachery
- wile
noun as in prank, joke
Strongest matches
Weak matches
noun as in expertise, know-how
noun as in characteristic, habit
verb as in fool; deceive
Example Sentences
A sturdy defense fooled by a trick play.
They leverage a common trick from the reinforcement learning field called zero-shot transfer learning, in which an already trained model is applied to a new task without being further trained.
Elphaba arrives alone, outfitted in the pointy black hat that Glinda has tricked her into wearing, and gets teased by all her classmates as she has been since arriving at Shiz University.
They knew her name, her phone number and her address and tricked her into believing they had access to her accounts, which helped convince her she was talking to a genuine bank employee.
Why, it’s almost as if she learned the Plastics' trick of luring someone to gossip about another person on the phone without letting on that it's a three-way conference with the subject silently listening.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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