English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French tricherie.

Noun edit

trichery (countable and uncountable, plural tricheries)

  1. (non-native speakers' English) Cheating; trickery.
    • 1997 May 6, Jad, “Superfeeding & Frankenstain”, in rec.arts.bonsai[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-26:
      Ok Brent I agree with you but you admit that the tricheries were not started by us.. Other, these who created the art of bonsai alredy did that as human life is too short in compareson to the bonsai span of life...
    • 2000 July 4, Laurent Bollini, “Euro 2000 Final”, in alt.sports.soccer.european[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-26:
      Everyone knows that Italy is the specialist of trichery, look at what Inzaghi did to win against Turkey you needed a penalty, that's why he flyed into the box...Desailly and Blanc were simply far better and did a great match, unlike Canavarro and Nesta who accumulates faults and one of them has been fortunately punished.
    • 2001 February 2, Theo, “PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: list of sentences, administrative sentences and those detained”, in alt.meditation.qigong[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-26:
      Men always needed prototype to idealize. some Men were symbols (Buddha-Jesus )others were symbols ideas :communism ,Fascism others Philosophy :Zen Taoism Confucianism and so on .. people are not stupid .. just insicure or aware of their mortality and weakness.. and this might get them inaware and prey of tricheries .. often good ideas start good end end evil!
    • 2002 January 3, White Rabbit, “12 reasons not to read alt.tarot”, in alt.tarot[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-26:
      We often use the world magic for whatever and it is is in my opinion silly as magic implies trichery ..
    • 2006 September 2, Heidi Graw, “The etymology of the German Hell...”, in sci.lang[5] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-26:
      Odin actually had to resort to trichery and charms before Rinda would allow him anywhere near her!