TRICKSTER SYNONYM FULL
We're just running at full throttle to try to jack turnout on March 1. It has no impact because people know what they are doing. This is trickery, they treat people like herds. Its just one honest shot, theres no trickery involved, showing the time machine and hoverboard gliding down the runway together, this time we were using velcro on the bottom of the boots, which meant I could tear away from the board if I ever needed to. Compare ARTIFICE FICTION FRAUD HYPOCRISY.Ĭraft, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, delusion, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fabrication, falsehood, finesse, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, lie, lying, prevarication, untruthĬandor, fair dealing, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth, veracity Finesse is simply an adroit and delicate management of a matter for one's own side, not necessarily involving deceit.
Dissimulation is rather a concealing of what is than a pretense of what is not. Duplicity is the habitual speaking or acting with intent to appear to mean what one does not. Craft and cunning have not necessarily any moral quality they are common traits of animals, but stand rather low in the human scale. Deception may be innocent, and even unintentional, as in the case of an optical illusion deceit always involves injurious intent. Falsehood and lying are in utterance deceit and deception may be merely in act or implication. Untruth is more than lack of accuracy, implying always lack of veracity but it is a somewhat milder and more dignified word than lie. The novel or drama is not a lie, because not meant to deceive the ancient teaching that the earth was flat was not a lie, because not then known to be false. A lie, lying, or falsehood, is the uttering of what one knows to be false with intent to deceive.
Send us feedback about these examples.Deceit is the habit, deception the act guile applies to the disposition out of which deceit and deception grow, and also to their actual practise. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'trickery.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, Creative director Matthieu Blazy’s sartorial trickery gave front-rowers a wow moment but was perhaps too subtle to dazzle those streaming the show on Instagram. Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023 Then came the trickery, as Yelich took off for second with Wiemer on third. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023 In this method, even placebo patients get a bit of psychedelic trickery with an all-natural concoction known to offer up a hint of hallucination. Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023 By digital trickery, with Ford’s face rejuvenated before our eyes. William Goodman, Men's Health, 14 July 2023 The show leans heavily into theater tropes rather than contemporary theme park trickery, which is expected.
Robin Marantz Henig, The Atlantic, 25 July 2023 The opening setpiece, set inside the Midfield Terminal at Abu Dhabi International Airport, features fellow IMF agents trying to track down Ethan via security camera footage, only to be foiled at every turn thanks to Luther (Ving Rhames) hacking the feed and doing some imagery trickery. Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 28 June 2023 Sun, a professor of animal behavior, ecology, and evolution at Central Washington University, presents a string of entertaining facts about the many ways plants and animals use trickery to survive. Recent Examples on the Web Industry experts warn that financial markets and voters could become vulnerable to A.I.
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