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Trickery vs Deceive - What's the difference?

trickery | deceive |

As a noun trickery

is deception or underhanded behavior.

As a verb deceive is

to trick or mislead.

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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    deceive

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    Verb

    (deceiv)
  • To trick or mislead.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 26 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits : , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.” }}

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