Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Trickery \Trick"er*y\, n.
   The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud;
   imposture.

Source : WordNet®

trickery
     n 1: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you
          in some way [syn: {hocus-pocus}, {slickness}, {hanky
          panky}, {jiggery-pokery}, {skulduggery}, {skullduggery}]
     2: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
        money from them) [syn: {chicanery}, {chicane}, {guile}, {wile},
         {shenanigan}]