| hanky panky | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery | verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way. |
| ~ deception, misrepresentation, deceit | a misleading falsehood. |
| hoax | | |
| n. (act) | 1. dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on | something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage. |
| ~ chicanery, wile, shenanigan, trickery, chicane, guile | the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them). |
| ~ goldbrick | anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless. |
| v. (social) | 2. hoax, play a joke on, pull someone's leg | subject to a playful hoax or joke. |
| ~ cozen, deceive, delude, lead on | be false to; be dishonest with. |
| subterfuge | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. blind, subterfuge | something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity.; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind" |
| ~ deception, misrepresentation, deceit | a misleading falsehood. |
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