Trickery

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NOUN

hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery

verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan

the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

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