| deceit | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. deceit, fraudulence | the quality of being fraudulent. |
| ~ dishonesty | the quality of being dishonest. |
| n. (communication) | 2. deceit, deception, misrepresentation | a misleading falsehood. |
| ~ bill of goods | communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable.; "they tried to sell me a bill of goods about a secondhand car" |
| ~ humbug, snake oil | communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive. |
| ~ falsehood, untruth, falsity | a false statement. |
| ~ half-truth | a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead. |
| ~ window dressing, facade | a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant. |
| ~ overstatement, exaggeration, magnification | making to seem more important than it really is. |
| ~ snow job | a long and elaborate misrepresentation. |
| ~ dissembling, feigning, pretense, pretence | pretending with intention to deceive. |
| ~ subterfuge, blind | 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" |
| ~ hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery | verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way. |
| ~ duplicity, fraudulence | a fraudulent or duplicitous representation. |
| ~ equivocation, evasion | a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth. |
| n. (act) | 3. deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation | the act of deceiving. |
| ~ falsification, misrepresentation | a willful perversion of facts. |
| ~ fakery | the act of faking (or the product of faking). |
| ~ indirection | deceitful action that is not straightforward.; "he could see through the indirections of diplomats" |
| ~ chicanery, wile, shenanigan, trickery, chicane, guile | the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them). |
| ~ double-dealing, duplicity | acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another. |
| ~ cheating, cheat | a deception for profit to yourself. |
| ~ head game, delusion, illusion | the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas. |
| ~ pretending, pretense, feigning, simulation, pretence | the act of giving a false appearance.; "his conformity was only pretending" |
| ~ imposture, impersonation | pretending to be another person. |
| ~ obscurantism | a deliberate act intended to make something obscure. |
| ~ four flush, bluff | the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards. |
| ~ take-in | the act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone. |
| deception | | |
| n. (act) | 1. 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. |
| fraud | | |
| n. (act) | 1. fraud | intentional deception resulting in injury to another person. |
| ~ crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offense, offence | (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act.; "a long record of crimes" |
| ~ barratry | (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo. |
| ~ identity theft | the co-option of another person's personal information (e.g., name, Social Security number, credit card number, passport) without that person's knowledge and the fraudulent use of such knowledge. |
| ~ mail fraud | use of the mails to defraud someone. |
| ~ election fraud | misrepresentation or alteration of the true results of an election. |
| ~ constructive fraud, legal fraud | comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence. |
| ~ collateral fraud, extrinsic fraud | fraud that prevents a party from knowing their rights or from having a fair opportunity of presenting them at trial. |
| ~ fraud in fact, positive fraud | actual deceit; concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent to cause injury to another. |
| ~ fraud in the factum | fraud that arises from a disparity between the instrument intended to be executed and the instrument actually executed; e.g., leading someone to sign the wrong contract. |
| ~ fraud in the inducement | fraud which intentionally causes a person to execute and instrument or make an agreement or render a judgment; e.g., misleading someone about the true facts. |
| ~ intrinsic fraud | fraud (as by use of forged documents or false claims or perjury) that misleads a court or jury and induces a finding for the one perpetrating the fraud. |
| ~ swindle, cheat, rig | the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme.; "that book is a fraud" |
| n. (person) | 2. fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer | a person who makes deceitful pretenses. |
| ~ beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, cheat, slicker | someone who leads you to believe something that is not true. |
| ~ name dropper | someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends. |
| ~ ringer | a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses. |
| n. (act) | 3. 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. |
| hoax | | |
| v. (social) | 1. 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. |
| sham | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. fake, postiche, sham | something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be. |
| ~ fake book | a fake in the form of an imitation book; used to fill bookcases of people who wish to appear scholarly. |
| ~ imitation | something copied or derived from an original. |
| ~ potemkin village | something that seems impressive but in fact lacks substance. |
| v. (creation) | 2. assume, feign, sham, simulate | make a pretence of.; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" |
| ~ pretend, dissemble, act | behave unnaturally or affectedly.; "She's just acting" |
| ~ play | pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity.; "Let's play like I am mommy"; "Play cowboy and Indians" |
| ~ feint | deceive by a mock action.; "The midfielder feinted to shoot" |
| v. (communication) | 3. affect, dissemble, feign, pretend, sham | make believe with the intent to deceive.; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" |
| ~ misrepresent, belie | represent falsely.; "This statement misrepresents my intentions" |
| ~ make believe, pretend, make | represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like.; "She makes like an actress" |
| ~ play possum | to pretend to be dead. |
| ~ take a dive | pretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer. |
| ~ bullshit, talk through one's hat, bull, fake | speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths.; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it" |
| ~ mouth | articulate silently; form words with the lips only.; "She mouthed a swear word" |
| adj. | 4. assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham | adopted in order to deceive.; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" |
| ~ counterfeit, imitative | not genuine; imitating something superior.; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince" |
| 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. (person) | 5. john, trick, whoremaster, whoremonger | a prostitute's customer. |
| ~ customer, client | someone who pays for goods or services. |
| n. (act) | 6. 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) | 7. 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" |
| 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 | | |
| 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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