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deception
noun as in misleading; being dishonest
Strongest matches
betrayal, deceit, disinformation, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, hypocrisy, lying, mendacity, treachery, trickery, untruth
Strong matches
artifice, beguilement, blarney, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, equivocation, flimflam, fraudulence, guile, hokum, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, pretense, prevarication, sophism, treason, trickiness, trumpery
Weak match
noun as in trick
Strong matches
bluff, boondoggle, catch, cheat, chicane, con, decoy, device, dodge, fallacy, feint, fib, gimmick, hogwash, hustle, imposture, jive, malarkey, pretext, ride, sham, shift, shuck, snare, stall, sting, story, stratagem, swindle, trap, whitewash, wile, wrinkle
Weak matches
bilk, con game, confidence game, crock, fast one, fast shuffle, mare's-nest, snow job
Example Sentences
Horton engaged in deception or buyers simply failed to understand the terms, he added.
In his lawsuit, Garcia claimed James owed him the amount paid for the tickets because of “fraud, deception, misrepresentation, and any and all basis of legal recovery.”
She added that the families deserved answers, and that those who "died serving their country deserve to be honoured not subjected to continuing deception from the MoD".
The House expelled him in December 2023 following an ethics investigation that detailed “a complex web of deception.”
Having been on “The Apprentice,” Jillette knows a thing or two about deception outside of performing magic — specifically the charade of a competition television show.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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