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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sense: an action or scheme that maliciously misleads or deludes[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- Abraham work (archaic, UK, slang)
- deception
- deceit
- dupery
- fiddle
- jugglery
- list [⇒ thesaurus]
- Punic faith
- subterfuge
- swack (dated, UK, slang)
- trickery
Hyponyms[edit]
- Abraham suit (thieves' cant)
- bunco
- cheat
- chicanery
- con
- con game
- confidence game
- confidence trick
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- fakery
- flim-flam
- forgery
- fraud
- fullam (archaic, UK, slang)
- grift
- hoax
- imposture
- Potemkin village
- racket
- rip-off
- scam
- sham
- skulduggery
- swindle
- trick
- underhandedness
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “545. deception” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “deception” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.