Trickery vs Cautelous - What's the difference?
trickery | cautelous |
(uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
* 1852 , , Bleak House , ch. 1:
(uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
(uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
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(countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
* 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 47:
* 1898 , , "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow :
(obsolete) Skillful in trickery or deception; cunning, wily.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
(obsolete) Cautious, careful.
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 140:
As a noun trickery
is deception or underhanded behavior.As an adjective cautelous is
skillful in trickery or deception; cunning, wily.trickery
English
Noun
(trickeries)- In trickery , evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
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- [H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.
- 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.
Synonyms
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*cautelous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I am not able to unfold, how this cautelous enterprise of licencing can be exempted from the number of vain and impossible attempts.
- Some are of disposition fearefull, some bold, most cautelous , all Savage.