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单词 trickery
释义
trickery
noun[U]
disapproving
uk
/ˈtrɪk.ər.i/us
/ˈtrɪk.ɚ.i/
theactivityof usingtrickstodeceiveorcheatpeople:
欺骗，欺诈
Thegovernment, he said, had resorted topoliticaltrickery initsattemptstoretainpower.他说，政府为了保住权力在政治上采用了欺诈手段。
Synonyms
chicaneryformal
deception
guileformal
jiggery-pokeryold-fashionedinformal
skulduggery
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Cheating & tricking
  • anti-fraud
  • bad faith
  • bamboozle
  • bilk
  • blackmail
  • deceive
  • fiddle
  • flannel
  • gull
  • have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom
  • havesomeoneon
  • hoax
  • hocus-pocus
  • hustle
  • pull
  • pull a fast oneidiom
  • pull the wool oversomeone'seyesidiom
  • punk
  • putsomethingacross/oversomeone
  • racket
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(Definition oftrickeryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

trickery| American Dictionary

trickery
noun[U]
us
/ˈtrɪk·ə·ri/
the use oftricksintendedtodeceive, as a way ofcheatingsomeone:
Theagencyused trickery,fraud, anddeceittoobtainthecomputersoftware.
(Definition oftrickeryfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftrickery

trickery
Second, the leaders are portrayed, often approvingly, as resorting totrickeryand shrewdness.
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A range of pamphlets and books was published that allegedly explained the 'trickery' behind the magic of the jaduwallah.
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The dream was not the only mental phenomenon to be displayed using cinematictrickeryduring this era.
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Negotiations between the attachment figure and the coercive child are typically leveraged, withtrickeryand coercion characteristic of the attachment figure's behavior.
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Exposedtrickerycontaminates the pool of potential subjects, so that even the pure suffer for the sins of the miscreants down the hall.
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In this age of digitaltrickerywe can all perform opera now, she seems to say.
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However, the count, despite all histrickery, did not have the ruthlessness to order a bloodbath.
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She is praised for the apparent 'naturalness' and 'purity' of her voice and 'the absence of studiotrickery'.
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Third, the purpose of thetrickeryis humiliation and /or provocation of the enemy.
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These two effects are uncannily related, in that music both registers and represses (by 'pointing' elsewhere) the listener's suspicion that mechanicaltrickerymight lie behind the most virtuosic live performances.
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Incidentally, such an average will hit hardest those colliery concerns which have refused to resort totrickeryand have not juggled with minimum prices.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The first explanation is that it is a fraud, that it istrickery, that it is chicanery and all the rest of it.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
If that is done, it may avoid a great deal of falsification and something which is often very closely akin totrickery.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Theirtrickerywill not save them from defeat or from the doom which awaits them, but will rather contribute to it.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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