| 词汇 | trickery |
| 释义 | trickery noun[ U ] disapprovinguk /ˈtrɪk.ər.i/ us /ˈtrɪk.ɚ.i/ the activity of using tricks to deceive or cheat people: 欺骗，欺诈 The government, he said, had resorted to political trickery in its attempts to retain power.他说，政府为了保住权力在政治上采用了欺诈手段。 Synonyms chicaneryformal deception guileformal jiggery-pokeryold-fashionedinformal skulduggery Cheating & tricking anti-fraud bad faith bamboozle bilk blackmail deceive diddle feint flannel funny business game-fixing grift grifter gull gyp prankishly prankster pretext pretextual pull trickery | American Dictionarytrickery noun[ U ] us/ˈtrɪk·ə·ri/ the use of tricks intended to deceive, as a way of cheating someone: The agency used trickery, fraud, and deceit to obtain the computer software. Examples of trickerytrickery Second, the leaders are portrayed, often approvingly, as resorting to trickery and shrewdness. A range of pamphlets and books was published that allegedly explained the 'trickery' behind the magic of the jaduwallah. The dream was not the only mental phenomenon to be displayed using cinematic trickery during this era. Negotiations between the attachment figure and the coercive child are typically leveraged, with trickery and coercion characteristic of the attachment figure's behavior. Exposed trickery contaminates the pool of potential subjects, so that even the pure suffer for the sins of the miscreants down the hall. In this age of digital trickery we can all perform opera now, she seems to say. However, the count, despite all his trickery, did not have the ruthlessness to order a bloodbath. She is praised for the apparent 'naturalness' and 'purity' of her voice and 'the absence of studio trickery'. Third, the purpose of the trickery is humiliation and /or provocation of the enemy. These two effects are uncannily related, in that music both registers and represses (by 'pointing' elsewhere) the listener's suspicion that mechanical trickery might lie behind the most virtuosic live performances. Incidentally, such an average will hit hardest those colliery concerns which have refused to resort to trickery and have not juggled with minimum prices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first explanation is that it is a fraud, that it is trickery, that it is chicanery and all the rest of it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If that is done, it may avoid a great deal of falsification and something which is often very closely akin to trickery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their trickery will not save them from defeat or from the doom which awaits them, but will rather contribute to it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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