noun
- Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.
- synonyms: hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
- The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them. ).
- synonyms: chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
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