1. (

• trickery ,
• hocus-pocus ,
• slickness ,
• hanky_panky ,
• jiggery-pokery ,
• skulduggery ,
• skullduggery

) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way ;

2. (

• trickery ,
• chicanery ,
• chicane ,
• guile ,
• wile ,
• shenanigan ,

) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) ;