0 the activity of using tricks to deceive or cheat people: --
1 the use of tricks intended to deceive, as a way of cheating someone: --
Their trickery will not save them from defeat or from the doom which awaits them, but will rather contribute to it.
If that is done, it may avoid a great deal of falsification and something which is often very closely akin to trickery.
The first explanation is that it is a fraud, that it is trickery, that it is chicanery and all the rest of it.
Incidentally, such an average will hit hardest those colliery concerns which have refused to resort to trickery and have not juggled with minimum prices.
These two effects are uncannily related, in that music both registers and represses (by 'pointing' elsewhere) the listener's suspicion that mechanical trickery might lie behind the most virtuosic live performances.
Third, the purpose of the trickery is humiliation and /or provocation of the enemy.
She is praised for the apparent 'naturalness' and 'purity' of her voice and 'the absence of studio trickery'.
However, the count, despite all his trickery, did not have the ruthlessness to order a bloodbath.
