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noun (n)

• verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way(noun.communication)

  Synonym:
  hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness
  

  source: wordnet30
• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)(noun.act)

  Synonym:
  chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile
  

  source: wordnet30
• The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.(noun)

  source: webster1913