verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
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the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
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Trickery \Trick"er*y\, n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
During jury selection, each defense lawyer suggested that his client had succumbed to lies, trickery and intimidation, and one alluded to how prisoners of war confess to things of which they are not guilty.
We leave the front door looking for joy and jollity; we reach the cinema to be greeted by strangely-dressed persons shrieking 'Trick or treat?' Addams Family Values is no treat and could well be investigated under charges of trickery.
But a spokesman for right-wing Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir described Khalaf's statements as "verbal trickery." "We have to watch what they do, not what they say," said spokesman Yossi Ahimeir.
Alerted to the Guard's trickery by the advance publicity, smugglers scarcely would wait for the cactus-clad Guardsmen to make the first move.
The whole crowd seethes around him, desperate to buy. Unfortunately for Keenan, he is being pursued by the sinister Hannibal Jackson who, suspecting trickery threatens blackmail - unless Keenan will agree to sell the animal.
"What converts a wrongful defiance of legal restrictions into criminal activity is the effort to defeat operation of the law through deceit, craft, or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest," Walsh wrote in the brief.