Nearby Words
ruse [rooz]
Main Entry:
ruse [rooz]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trick, deception
Synonyms: angle, artifice, blind, booby trap, curveball, deceit, device, dodge, feint, gambit, game, game plan, gimmick, hoax, imposture, jig, maneuver, ploy, scenario, sham, shenanigans*, shift, stratagem, stunt, subterfuge, switch*, twist*, wile
Main Entry: bluff
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: boast; deceit
Synonyms: bluster, braggadocio, bragging, bravado, deception, delusion, facade, fake, false colors, false front, feint, fraud, front, humbug, jiving, lie, pretense, pretext, ruse, sham, show, snow*, stall, subterfuge, trick
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: 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: craft
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deceit, scheme
Synonyms: art, artfulness, artifice, cageyness, canniness, contrivance, craftiness, cunning, disingenuity, duplicity, foxiness, guile, ruse, shrewdness, slyness, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, subtlety, trickery, wiles, wiliness
Antonyms: honesty, openness
Main Entry: deceit
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: particular type of trick, misleading
Synonyms: artifice, blind, cheat, chicanery, crocodile tears, deception, dirty trick, dirty work, duplicity, fake, feint, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, imposture, misrepresentation, pretense, ruse, sell, sellout, sham, shift, smoke and mirrors, snow job, soft soap, spoof, stratagem, subterfuge, sweet talk, swindle, trick, whitewash, wile
Main Entry: deception
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trick
Synonyms: artifice, bilk, bluff, catch, cheat, chicane, con, con game, confidence game, cover-up, crock, decoy, device, dodge, fallacy, fast one, fast shuffle, feint, fib, fraud, gimmick, hoax, hogwash, hustle, illusion, imposture, jive, lie, malarkey, mare's-nest, pretext, ride*, ruse, scam, sham, shift, shuck, snare, snow job, stall, sting, story, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, trick, whitewash, wile, wrinkle
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
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