trickery

Chinatown, for instance, is a kind of smart trickery that is rewarding.

But in Nymphomaniac, the effect was achieved through CGI trickery.

But did Copperfield employ a bit of trickery to purchase Musha Cay in the first place?

In addition to the Simon trickery, were there any other fun moments with the cast?

But almost always, they signify mystery—and even a bit of trickery.

The imposture was discovered, and the poor girl confessed to the wicked trickery which her parents had taught her to practise!

It may be rude to say that all this was all a trick, but pardonable, perhaps, to say it looks very like trickery.

As true innocence charms, so the trickery of pretended innocence disgusts and displeases.

Fearing some trickery, the old man, instead of answering, replied that he wished to go and see the scaffold.

I shall experience all the degradation of a slave, but I will also practise a slave's perfidy and trickery.