trickery
(noun)
noun
1. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
Similar word(s): skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness
Definition categories: communication, deceit, deception, misrepresentation
2. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Similar word(s): chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile
Definition categories: act, deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation