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Another word for trickery

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Noun

  1. Lack of straightforwardness and honesty in action

    See also:

    honest

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Another word for trickery

Noun
  1. See also:

    deception

    dishonesty

    deception

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Sentence Examples

  • He despised all trickery and selfish greed.

  • He shrank from no trickery in carrying out his ends, and had no room for pity.

  • In the sequel Daniel proves to the king that the priests with their wives and children came in through privy doors and consumed the viands set before the god; and the king, angered at their trickery, slew them all and gave Bel over to Daniel for destruction.

  • Idolatrous cults repose so largely on make-believe and credulity that the priests who administered them, perhaps oftener than we know, fell into the kind of imposture and trickery of which the legend of Bel and the dragon represents a classical example.

  • Caveats should be associated with this trickery.

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