· verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
Synonym(s): hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky_panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
Hypernym(s): misrepresentation, deceit, deception
· the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Synonym(s): chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
Hypernym(s): deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation