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Trickery vs Circumvention - What's the difference?

trickery | circumvention |

As nouns the difference between trickery and circumvention

is that trickery is (uncountable) deception or underhanded behavior while circumvention is the act of evading by going around (bypassing).

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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    circumvention

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of evading by going around (bypassing).
  • The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
    • A school in which he learns sly circumvention . --.