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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practice of misleading |
| Synonyms: | ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, cozening, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, defrauding, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, entrapping, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, overreaching, pretense, slyness, smoke and mirrors, trapping, treachery, trickery, two-facedness, two-timing, underhandedness |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty, openness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
ad captandum, adulterated, artificial, babyshed, barefaced, bastard, bogus, brummagem, calophantic, catchpenny, catchy, colorable, contraband, counterfeit, covinous, cunning, deceitful, deceived, deceiving, deceptious, deceptive, delusive, delusory, devious, disguised, double-dealing, elusive, ersatz, factitious, fair-weather, faithless, feigned, fraudulent, fucatory, ill-gotten, illegitimate, illicit, illusive, illusory, insidious, make-believe, meretricious, mock, parlous, pawky, pinchbeck, predatory, prestigiatory, prestigious, pretended, pseudo, rotten at the core, scamped, sham, simulated, so-called, sophisticated, spurious, supposititious, surreptitious, tinsel, tricky, trumped-up, two-faced, unconscionable, unscrupulous, unsound, unsupported by evidence, untrue, wildcat
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| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cunning |
| Synonyms: | artfulness, artifice, astuteness, canniness, craftiness, deceit, duplicity, guile, slyness, trickery, wiliness |
| Main Entry: | camouflage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disguise |
| Synonyms: | beard, blind, cloak, concealment, cover, coverup, deceit, deceptive marking, dissimulation, faking, false appearance, front, guise, mask, masking, masquerade, mimicry, paint, plain brown wrapper, protective coloring, red herring, screen, shade, shroud, smokescreen, veil |
| Main Entry: | cant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypocritical statement |
| Synonyms: | affected piety, deceit, dishonesty, humbug, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, insincerity, lip service, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pious platitudes, pomposity, pretense, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, sham holiness, show |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | artifice, baloney, bamboozlement, bill of goods, bunco, chicanery, con, con game, cover up, cozening, deceit, deception, dirty pool, dirty trick, dodge, double-dealing, fake, fast one, fast shuffle, fix, flimflam, frame, fraud, gyp, hanky-panky, hoax, hoaxing, humbug, hustle, imposture, jazz, jive, plant, put-on, racket, rip-off, run around, scam, sell, shady deal, sham, shell game, snow job, spoof, sting, stunt, swindle, trickery, whitewash, wrong |
| 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: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fake, forgery |
| Synonyms: | actor, bogus*, bum, copy, deceit, deception, dummy, facsimile, fraud, gyp, hoax, humbug, imitation, imposture, junque, phony, pseudo, put-on, reproduction, sell*, sham, simulacrum |
| Antonyms: | real thing, reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
| Synonyms: | beguilement, betrayal, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, defraudation, dirt, disinformation, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, fast one, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty, honor, openness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
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