[f. TRICK sb. + -ERY.] The practice of tricks; deceitful conduct or practice; deception, artifice; imposture.
1800. Parr, Spital Serm., Wks. 1828, II. 394. Good sense without the trickeries of art, good language without the trappings of rhetoric.
1824. Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange, Life (1870), II. ix. 174. He has a great deal of real sensibility, mixed with some trickery.
1825. T. Hook, Sayings, Ser. II. Man of Many Fr. (Colburn), 91. Versed in all the experimental trickeries of science.
1881. Jowett, Thucyd., I. 118. We rely not upon management or trickery, but upon our own hearts and hands.
