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Slyness vs Trickery - What's the difference?

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Slyness is a related term of trickery.


In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between slyness and trickery

is that slyness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being being sly while trickery is (uncountable) artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.

In countable|lang=en terms the difference between slyness and trickery

is that slyness is (countable) the result or product of being sly while trickery is (countable) an instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.

As nouns the difference between slyness and trickery

is that slyness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being being sly while trickery is (uncountable) deception or underhanded behavior.

slyness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being being sly.
    • ''With his natural slyness , he was able to talk his way out of trouble.
  • (countable) The result or product of being sly.

    • Synonyms

    * craftiness

    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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