Trickery

(noun.) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).

(noun.) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.

迪克整理

• In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It was impossible to stifle the consequences of that process for ever by political trickery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But such is the wretched trickery of hole-and- corner Buffery! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• For a long time some people thought there was trickery. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The remark was so pointed that Caliphronas winced, but at once smiled gayly and replied in the same vein,— Venus and Hermes—Love and Trickery! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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