Trickery vs False - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
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(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 :
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun trickery
is (uncountable) deception or underhanded behavior.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.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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English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}