trickery

1. (countable, uncountable) Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.Examples: "[H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase."; "In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good."; "The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax."countableuncountable

2. (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.uncountable

3. (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.Examples: "French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline."uncountable