wizardry, subterfuge, chicanery, misdirection, sleight, gamesmanship, guile, tricks, gimmickry, theatrics, craftiness, legerdemain, gimmicks, tomfoolery, skullduggery, deception, finesse, stratagems, ploys, ruses, cleverness, dirty tricks, opportunism, shenanigans, skulduggery, prestidigitation, manipulations, deft, magic, playacting, slyness, incisiveness, voodoo, devilry, tactic, devilment, histrionics, feints, acrobatics, sorcery, kidology, artifice, deceit, obfuscation, cunningness, hackery, bamboozle, foolery, deviousness, sophistry, blitzes, flair, machination, adroitness, cheekiness, thievery, sneakiness, fakery, maneuver, escapology, contortion, showboating, telepathy, flimflam, hyperbole, unscrupulousness, audaciousness, wiles, razzle, brilliance, shrewdness, ineptitude, inventiveness, brawn, stunts, sloppiness, ingenuity, shiftiness, unoriginality, roguery, mischievousness, dink, dramatics, genius, cajolery, hack, bluster, buffoonery, underhandedness, high jinks, clumsiness, subversiveness, subtlety, scything, panache, physicality, hackwork, intrigue, thuggery, canniness, elusiveness, abracadabra, artifices, subterfuges, deceptions, dodges, jugglery, ruse, camouflage, evasion

dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, put-on

., cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, dodge, dodging, dupery, escape, evasion, finagle, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, jockey, jugglery, manage, outfox, put-on, scheme, screw, shaft, shark, wangle, wangling

dissembling, dissimulation, misrepresentation

hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, shenanigan, slickness, wile