Plotting
Trickery
Trickery noun - The use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end.
Usage example: Delia resorted to trickery—even loading up the fishing equipment—to induce her dog into the car for his vet appointment
Plotting and trickery are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Plotting" instead a noun "Trickery".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- plot and plotting
- plot and trickery
- scheme and plotting
- scheme and trickery
- stratagem and plotting
- stratagem and trickery
- intrigue and plotting
- intrigue and trickery
- machination and plotting
- machination and trickery
- conspiracy and plotting
- conspiracy and trickery
- artifice and plotting
- artifice and trickery
Both words in one sentence
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This may be somewhat of an overstatement, though, as most of the plotting and trickery is pulled off by a djinni who is thousands of years old.
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Kitsune: The witch is strongly implied to be one - seductive, shapeshifter, a mistress of plotting and trickery, most of the time turns into fox-form.
Source: Film / 47 Ronin
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Trickery and Plotting. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/plotting/trickery
Plotting & Trickery. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/plotting/trickery>.
Trickery or Plotting. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/plotting/trickery.
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