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- noun
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- trickery or subterfuge [Princeton Review]
- use of clever but misleading talk in order to trick sb, esp in legal matters; dishonest practice [Barron]
- deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry; trickery [Taisha]
- legal trickery/false argument [Nandigam]
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