TRICKERY in a Sentence
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14 example sentences for TRICKERY, such as:
1. his death is attributed to trickery.
2. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery.
3. Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery.
4. All in all, this bit of trickery is just a bad idea plain and simple.
5. Lanfrey, a Republican, says it was based on his trickery and deception of the people.
2. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery.
3. Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery.
4. All in all, this bit of trickery is just a bad idea plain and simple.
5. Lanfrey, a Republican, says it was based on his trickery and deception of the people.
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Meanings and Examples of TRICKERY
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trickery
n. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Classic Sentence:
1 Being what he was, Rhett would naturally want to torment and insult her as much as possible to pay her back for past slights and for her recent attempted trickery.
2 Honesty and courtesy in business are preferable to boorishness and exposed trickery, but this is not to be taken personally, since all persons in Gopher Prairie are known to be honest and courteous.
3 He was cruel enough to inflict the severest punishment, artful enough to descend to the lowest trickery, and obdurate enough to be insensible to the voice of a reproving conscience.
4 his death is attributed to trickery.
5 "Making profit by dishonest means, by trickery," said Levin, conscious that he could not draw a distinct line between honesty and dishonesty.
6 Now he could only remember that there was some sort of trickery in it, but he was too bored to think what it was exactly.
7 Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery.
8 I am absolutely certain there was no trickery.
9 But the important point is that there was trickery connected with the legacy, and shameful trickery at that.
10 Lanfrey, a Republican, says it was based on his trickery and deception of the people.
11 He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness.
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12 Meantime, new thoughts came to the nation: the inevitable period of moral retrogression and political trickery that ever follows in the wake of war overtook us.
Example Sentence:
1 All in all, this bit of trickery is just a bad idea plain and simple.
2 Adding to the poignancy is that, whatever O'Connor's fate, it will have to involve computer trickery and editing sleight-of-hand to compensate for the actor's absence.