The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Trickery \Trick"er*y\, n.
   The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud;
   imposture.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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