| cheater | | |
| n. (person) | 1. beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster | someone who leads you to believe something that is not true. |
| ~ offender, wrongdoer | a person who transgresses moral or civil law. |
| ~ bluffer, four-flusher | a person who tries to bluff other people. |
| ~ chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler, gouger | a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud. |
| ~ decoy, steerer | a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot). |
| ~ dodger, slyboots, fox | a shifty deceptive person. |
| ~ double-crosser, double-dealer, betrayer, traitor, two-timer | a person who says one thing and does another. |
| ~ defalcator, embezzler, peculator | someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use. |
| ~ falsifier | someone who falsifies. |
| ~ finagler, wangler | a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods. |
| ~ counterfeiter, forger | someone who makes copies illegally. |
| ~ fortune hunter | a person who seeks wealth through marriage. |
| ~ figurehead, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, front | a person used as a cover for some questionable activity. |
| ~ dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender | a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives. |
| ~ imitator, impersonator | someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another. |
| ~ faker, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, fake, fraud, pretender, sham, shammer | a person who makes deceitful pretenses. |
| ~ liar, prevaricator | a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly. |
| ~ misleader | someone who leads astray (often deliberately). |
| ~ charlatan, mountebank | a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes. |
| ~ obscurantist | a person who is deliberately vague. |
| ~ sandbagger | someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you. |
| ~ two-timer | someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else. |
| ~ utterer | someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins. |
| crook | | |
| n. (person) | 1. criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime. |
| ~ accessary, accessory | someone who helps another person commit a crime. |
| ~ arsonist, firebug, incendiary | a criminal who illegally sets fire to property. |
| ~ blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist | a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them. |
| ~ bootlegger, moonshiner | someone who makes or sells illegal liquor. |
| ~ briber, suborner | someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act. |
| ~ coconspirator, conspirator, machinator, plotter | a member of a conspiracy. |
| ~ desperado, desperate criminal | a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier). |
| ~ fugitive from justice, fugitive | someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice. |
| ~ gangster, mobster | a criminal who is a member of gang. |
| ~ highbinder | a corrupt politician. |
| ~ highjacker, hijacker | someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination. |
| ~ hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie, goon, tough | an aggressive and violent young criminal. |
| ~ gaolbird, jail bird, jailbird | a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly. |
| ~ abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher | someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom). |
| ~ mafioso | a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States. |
| ~ gangster's moll, gun moll, moll | the girlfriend of a gangster. |
| ~ liquidator, manslayer, murderer | a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being). |
| ~ principal | (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement. |
| ~ parolee, probationer | someone released on probation or on parole. |
| ~ drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler, pusher | an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs. |
| ~ racketeer | someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion). |
| ~ raper, rapist | someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse. |
| ~ habitual criminal, recidivist, repeater | someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior). |
| ~ scofflaw | one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses. |
| ~ contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, runner, smuggler | someone who imports or exports without paying duties. |
| ~ stealer, thief | a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it. |
| ~ traitor, treasonist | someone who betrays his country by committing treason. |
| ~ law offender, lawbreaker, violator | someone who violates the law. |
| ~ billie the kid, bonney, william h. bonney | United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881). |
| ~ jesse james, james | United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882). |
| ~ macgregor, rob roy, robert macgregor | Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734). |
| n. (shape) | 2. bend, crook, turn, twist | a circular segment of a curve.; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path" |
| ~ curve, curved shape | the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes. |
| ~ bight | a bend or curve (especially in a coastline). |
| n. (artifact) | 3. crook, shepherd's crook | a long staff with one end being hook shaped. |
| ~ staff | a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose.; "he walked with the help of a wooden staff" |
| v. (motion) | 4. crook, curve | bend or cause to bend.; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply" |
| ~ recurve | curve or bend (something) back or down. |
| ~ bend, flex | form a curve.; "The stick does not bend" |
| knave | | |
| n. (person) | 1. knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet | a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel. |
| ~ scoundrel, villain | a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. jack, knave | one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince. |
| ~ court card, face card, picture card | one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face. |
| deceive | | |
| v. (social) | 1. cozen, deceive, delude, lead on | be false to; be dishonest with. |
| ~ betray, sell | deliver to an enemy by treachery.; "Judas sold Jesus"; "The spy betrayed his country" |
| ~ victimise, victimize | make a victim of.; "I was victimized by this con-man" |
| ~ chisel, cheat | engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud.; "Who's chiseling on the side?" |
| ~ shill | act as a shill.; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up" |
| ~ flim-flam, fob, fox, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick, play a joke on | deceive somebody.; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week" |
| ~ befool, fool, gull | make a fool or dupe of. |
| ~ cheat on, cuckold, wander, betray, cheat | be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage.; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" |
| ~ hoax, play a joke on, pull someone's leg | subject to a playful hoax or joke. |
| ~ ensnare, entrap, frame, set up | take or catch as if in a snare or trap.; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police" |
| ~ humbug | trick or deceive. |
| v. (communication) | 2. betray, deceive, lead astray | cause someone to believe an untruth.; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house" |
| ~ misinform, mislead | give false or misleading information to. |
| ~ personate, impersonate, pose | pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions.; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" |
| ~ bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, hoodwink, snow | conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end.; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well" |
| ~ cod, dupe, put one across, put one over, befool, gull, slang, take in, fool, put on | fool or hoax.; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" |
| defraud | | |
| v. (social) | 1. bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize | deprive of by deceit.; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" |
| ~ short, short-change | cheat someone by not returning him enough money. |
| ~ cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit.; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" |
| trick | | |
| n. (act) | 1. fast one, trick | a cunning or deceitful action or device.; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it" |
| ~ device, gimmick, twist | any clever maneuver.; "he would stoop to any device to win a point"; "it was a great sales gimmick"; "a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen" |
| ~ schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik | (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating.; "how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?" |
| n. (time) | 2. trick | a period of work or duty. |
| ~ duty period, work shift, shift | the time period during which you are at work. |
| n. (act) | 3. trick | an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent.; "that offer was a dirty trick" |
| ~ knavery, dishonesty | lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing. |
| n. (act) | 4. antic, caper, joke, prank, put-on, trick | a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement. |
| ~ diversion, recreation | an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates.; "scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists"; "for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles"; "drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation" |
| ~ dirty trick | an unkind or aggressive trick. |
| ~ practical joke | a prank or trick played on a person (especially one intended to make the victim appear foolish). |
| n. (act) | 5. conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick | an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers. |
| ~ performance | the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment.; "we congratulated him on his performance at the rehearsal"; "an inspired performance of Mozart's C minor concerto" |
| ~ card trick | a trick performed with playing cards. |
| ~ prestidigitation, sleight of hand | manual dexterity in the execution of tricks. |
| n. (person) | 6. john, trick, whoremaster, whoremonger | a prostitute's customer. |
| ~ customer, client | someone who pays for goods or services. |
| n. (act) | 7. trick | (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner. |
| ~ turn, play | (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession.; "it is my turn"; "it is still my play" |
| ~ card game, cards | a game played with playing cards. |
| v. (social) | 8. flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick | deceive somebody.; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week" |
| ~ cozen, deceive, delude, lead on | be false to; be dishonest with. |
| ~ snooker | fool or dupe.; "He was snookered by the con-man's smooth talk" |
| wangle | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. wangle, wangling | an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery. |
| ~ dodge, stratagem, contrivance | an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade.; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track" |
| v. (social) | 2. finagle, manage, wangle | achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods. |
| ~ achieve, attain, accomplish, reach | to gain with effort.; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks" |
| v. (social) | 3. cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle | tamper, with the purpose of deception.; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" |
| ~ chisel, cheat | engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud.; "Who's chiseling on the side?" |
| ~ juggle | manipulate by or as if by moving around components.; "juggle an account so as to hide a deficit" |
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