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| Main Entry: |
strategem
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | action, angle, artifice, bit*, booby trap, brainchild, con, deception, device, dodge, feint, gambit, game, game plan, gimmick, grift, intrigue, layout, maneuver, method, pitch, plan, play, plot, ploy, pretext, proposition, racket, ruse, scenario, scene, scheme, setup, shift, slant, stall, story, subterfuge, switch, twist, wile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | snare, trick |
| Synonyms: | allurement, ambuscade, ambush, artifice, bait, booby trap, come-on, conspiracy, deception, decoy, device, dragnet, enticement, feint, gambit, hook*, intrigue, inveiglement, lasso, lure, machination, maneuver, net, noose, pitfall, plot, ploy, prank, quagmire, quicksand, ruse, seducement, snag*, stratagem, subterfuge, temptation, wile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | treason |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty |
| Synonyms: | breach of faith, crime, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, disaffection, dishonesty, duplicity, faithlessness, lèse- majesté, mutiny, perfidy, revolt, revolutionary, sedition, seditious act, seditiousness, subversion, traitorousness, treachery |
| Antonyms: | allegiance, devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | trick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceit |
| Synonyms: | ambush, artifice, blind, bluff, casuistry, cheat, chicanery, circumvention, con*, concealment, conspiracy, conundrum, cover, deception, decoy, delusion, device, disguise, distortion, dodge*, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, fabrication, fake, falsehood, feint, forgery, fraud, game, gimmick, hoax, illusion, imposition, imposture, intrigue, invention, machination, maneuver, perjury, plot, ploy, pretense, ruse, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, treachery, wile |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | subterfuge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cheating |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheat, chicanery, deception, device, dishonesty, evasion, excuse, fraud, plan, ploy, pretense, refuge, ruse, scheme, sham, shift, sophistry, stratagem, trick |
| Antonyms: | honesty, openness |
| Main Entry: | wile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cunning |
| Synonyms: | angle, artfulness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, con*, contrivance, craft, craftiness, deceit, deception, device, dishonesty, dissimulation, dodge, feint, flimflam, fraud, gambit, game, gimmick, guile, hoax, horseplay, imposition, little game, lure, maneuver, monkey business, monkeyshines, plot, ploy, racket, ruse, scam*, scheming, setup, shenanigans*, skullduggery, slant, slyness, stratagem, stunt, subterfuge, switch, trick, trickery, twist |
| Antonyms: | naivety, stupidity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cheating |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying |
| Synonyms: | deceiving, deception, defrauding, dishonesty |
| Main Entry: | insincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distortion |
| Synonyms: | deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, falsity, hypocrisy, lies, pretense |
| Main Entry: | stratagem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | action, angle, artifice, bit, booby trap, brainchild, child, con, deception, device, dodge, feint, gambit, game, game plan, gamesmanship, gimmick, grift, intrigue, layout, little game, maneuver, method, one-upmanship, pitch, plan, play, plot, ploy, pretext, proposition, racket, ruse, scenario, scene, scheme, setup, shift, slant, stall, story, subterfuge, switch, twist, wile |
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