TRICKERY in a Sentence

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For TRICKERY, below is one of 14 sentences:
Now he could only remember that there was some sort of trickery in it, but he was too bored to think what it was exactly.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRICKERY
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trickery
 n.  art of dressing up; practice or use of tricks; deception by stratagem
Classic Sentence:
1  Being what he was, Rhett would naturally want to torment and insult her as much as possible to pay her back for past slights and for her recent attempted trickery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  Honesty and courtesy in business are preferable to boorishness and exposed trickery, but this is not to be taken personally, since all persons in Gopher Prairie are known to be honest and courteous.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  He was cruel enough to inflict the severest punishment, artful enough to descend to the lowest trickery, and obdurate enough to be insensible to the voice of a reproving conscience.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  his death is attributed to trickery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  "Making profit by dishonest means, by trickery," said Levin, conscious that he could not draw a distinct line between honesty and dishonesty.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 11
6  Now he could only remember that there was some sort of trickery in it, but he was too bored to think what it was exactly.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 30
7  Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
8  I am absolutely certain there was no trickery.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
9  But the important point is that there was trickery connected with the legacy, and shameful trickery at that.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
10  Lanfrey, a Republican, says it was based on his trickery and deception of the people.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER II
11  He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
12  Meantime, new thoughts came to the nation: the inevitable period of moral retrogression and political trickery that ever follows in the wake of war overtook us.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
Example Sentence:
1  All in all, this bit of trickery is just a bad idea plain and simple.
2  Adding to the poignancy is that, whatever O'Connor's fate, it will have to involve computer trickery and editing sleight-of-hand to compensate for the actor's absence.