Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maneuver, plot |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cabal, conspiracy, design, device, dirty work, dodge*, intrigue, monkey business, on the make, ploy, practice, ruse, scheme, sellout, skullduggery, song and dance, stratagem, trick |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chicanery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, trickery |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheating, chicane, deviousness, dishonesty, dodge, double-crossing, double-dealing, duplicity, feint, fourberie, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, hanky-panky, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, sharp practice, skullduggery, sophistry, stratagem, subterfuge, surreptitiousness, underhandedness, wiles |
| Notes: | duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness |
| Antonyms: | forthrightness, honesty, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | complicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conspiracy |
| Synonyms: | abetment, agreement, collaboration, collusion, complot, concurrence, confederacy, connivance, engineering, guilt, guiltiness, implication, intrigue, involvement, machination, manipulation, partnership |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, innocence, noninvolvement, refusal |
| Main Entry: | conspiracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collusion in plan |
| Synonyms: | cabal, complot, confederacy, connivance, countermine, counterplot, covin, disloyalty, fix, frame*, game, hookup, intrigue, league, little game, machination, perfidy, plot, practice, put-up job, scheme, sedition, treacherousness, treachery, treason, trick, trickery |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contrivance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plan, fabrication |
| Synonyms: | angle, artifice, brainchild, coinage, design, dodge, expedient, formation, gimmick, intrigue, invention, inventiveness, machination, measure, plot, project, ruse, scheme, slant, stratagem, switch, trick, twist |
| Antonyms: | disorganization |
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intention |
| Synonyms: | action, aim, angle, animus, big picture, brainchild, child*, conation, conspiracy, deliberation, end, enterprise, game plan, gimmick, goal, intendment, intrigue, lay of the land, machination, meaning, notion, object, objective, picture, pitch, plan, play, plot, point, project, proposition, purport, purpose, recipe, reflection, scenario, scene, schema, scheme, setup, story, target, thinking, thought, trick, undertaking, view, volition, what's cooking, will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | device |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ploy, scheme, maneuver |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cabal, chicanery, clever move, craft, craftiness, cunningness, design, dodge, evasion, expedient, fake, feint, finesse, gambit, game, gimmick, improvisation, loophole, machination, method, pattern, plan, plot, project, proposition, purpose, racket, ruse, shift, stratagem, strategy, stunt, subterfuge, trap, trick, wile |
| Main Entry: | dodge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick, feint |
| Synonyms: | contrivance, device, machination, method, plan, plot, ploy, ruse, scheme, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, wile |
| Main Entry: | intrigue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scheme |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cabal, chicanery, collusion, complication, conspiracy, contrivance, deal, design, dodge, double-dealing, fix, frame-up, fraud, game, graft, hookup, little game, machination, maneuver, manipulation, plan, plot, ruse, stratagem, trickery, wile |
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