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Imposition vs Trickery - What's the difference?

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Imposition is a related term of trickery.


As nouns the difference between imposition and trickery

is that imposition is the act of imposing]], laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, [[obtrude|obtruding, and the like while trickery is (uncountable) deception or underhanded behavior.

imposition

English

Noun

(wikipedia imposition) (en noun)
  • The act of imposing]], laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, [[obtrude, obtruding, and the like.
  • That which is imposed, levied]], or [[enjoin, enjoined.
  • An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put or laid on others.
  • (printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
  • (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
  • (UK) A task imposed on a student as punishment.

    • Synonyms

    * (act of imposing and the like) imposure, infliction, obtrusion * burden, charge, enjoinder, injunction, tax * cheating, deception, delusion, fraud, imposture, trick

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    trickery

    English

    Noun

    (trickeries)
  • (uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
  • * 1852 , , Bleak House , ch. 1:
    • In trickery , evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
  • (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
  • (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.}}
  • (countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
  • * 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 47:
    • [H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.
  • * 1898 , , "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow :
    • The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax.

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