play tricks

Verb

Meaning

deceive somebody

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

trick play a joke on play a trick on fox kid fob joke counterfeit tease feign fool around mess around flim-flam mess about clown around
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Antonyms

mean business be determined be serious be deadly serious be in earnest be unhumorous
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Hypernyms

cozen deceive delude lead on

Hyponyms

snooker

Examples

Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller. Dudley Moore

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet. Bob Dylan

I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore. Orson Scott Card

My resolution was taken. It seemed intolerable that I should endure existence subject to the arbitrary visitations of a Magician who could thus play tricks with one's very stomach. If only I could in any way manage to pin him against the wall till help came! Edwin Abbott Abbott

Perhaps the heart does not deceive; never does give a false answer, except to those double-minded unhappy ones who do care about themselves, and so play tricks with it and tamper with it. James Anthony Froude

Rats do not play tricks with kittens. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

play too much play tribe play trick on play troupe play truant play truant from