n. reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others

n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

n. a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it"

n. any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)

n. a maneuver in a game or conversation

n. activities that are enjoyable or amusing; "I do it for the fun of it"; "he is fun to have around"

n. (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner

n. a criminal or vicious act

n. lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

n. an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick"

n. the trait of behaving like an imp

n. the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct; "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction"

n. the quality of being dishonest

n. the tendency to be untruthful

n. the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks

n. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

n. a plan for attaining a particular goal

n. a clandestine love affair

n. a misleading falsehood

n. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind"

n. a fraudulent or duplicitous representation