trickery

CEFRB2

/ˈtɹɪ.kə.ɹi/

noun

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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This is Cao Cao's trickery.
[H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.
In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.

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[H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.
1809, Washington Irving, chapter 47, in Knickerbocker's History of New York
In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
1852, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House
French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.
2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport
The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax.
1898, Bret Harte, “See UP”, in Stories in Light and Shadow

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From trick + -ery, first recorded in 1719.