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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive |
| Synonyms: | affect, beguile, betray, bunco, con, counterfeit, defraud, delude, double-cross, fake out, fake*, feign, fool, humbug, illude, jive, juggle, lie, mislead, pretend, psych out, put on*, sham*, shuck, simulate, snow*, take in*, trick |
| Antonyms: | come clean, reveal, tell truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defraud, fool |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, beat, beguile, bilk, bleed, bunco, burn, caboodle, chisel, con, cozen, crib, cross, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, do a number on, do*, double-cross, double-deal, dupe, fast talk, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fudge, give bum steer, gouge, gyp, hoodwink, hose, jerk around, milk, mislead, pull one's leg, ream, rip off, rook, rope in, sandbag, scam, screw, shaft, short, shuck, skin, snow, stiff, sucker, swindle, take, take for a ride, take in, take out, trick, trim, two-time, victimize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | collusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secret understanding, often with intent to defraud |
| Synonyms: | bait and switch, bill of goods, bunco, cahoots, complicity, con game, connivance, conspiracy, craft, deceit, diddling, dodge, double-cross, fast shuffle, flam, flimflam, fradulent artifice, graft, guilt, guiltiness, gyp, intrigue, plot, racket, scam, scheme, shell game, skunk, sting*, trick, whitewash |
| Notes: | cooperation is always positive, collaboration is positive except in wartime (working with the enemy), and collusion is always negative (working together in secret for a dishonest purpose) |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | treachery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty, dishonesty |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, bunco, corruption, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, disaffection, dodge, double-cross, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, fake, falseness, fast shuffle, flimflam, grift, gyp, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, put-on, racket, recreancy, scam*, sellout, shell game, skin game, spoof, stab in the back, sweet talk, treacherousness, treason, two-timing, whitewash |
| Antonyms: | constancy, devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, honesty, love, loyalty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | con artist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confidence man |
| Synonyms: | barricuda, bilker, bunco, cheater, clip artist, con man, crook, deceiver, fleecer, flimflammer, fraud, hoser, hustler, mountebank, scam artist, scammer, shark, sharpie, smoothie, swindler |
| Main Entry: | con man |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confidence man |
| Synonyms: | bilker, bunco, cheater, clip artist, con artist, crook, deceiver, fleecer, flimflammer, fraud, hoser, hustler, mountebank, scam artist, scammer, shark, sharpie, smoothie, swindler |
| Main Entry: | confidence man |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | con man |
| Synonyms: | bilker, bunco, cheater, clip artist, con artist, fleecer, flimflammer, hoser, hustler, scam artist, scammer, shark, sharpie, smoothie |
| Main Entry: | perfidy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | treachery |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, bunco, corruption, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, disaffection, dodge*, double-cross, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, fake*, falseness, fast shuffle, flimflam, grift, gyp, infidelity, perfidiousness, put-on, racket, recreancy, scam*, sellout, shell game, skin game, spoof, stab in the back, sweet talk, treacherousness, treason, two-timing, whitewash |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | treacherousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | treachery |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, bunco, corruption, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, disaffection, dodge*, double-cross, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, fake*, falseness, fast shuffle, flimflam, grift, gyp, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, put-on, racket, recreancy, scam*, sellout, shell game, skin game, spoof, stab in the back, sweet talk, treason, two-timing, whitewash |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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