"trickery" in the noun sense
1. trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
2. trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
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