Thesaurus:deception

Thesaurus

deception

English

Noun

Sense: an action or scheme that maliciously misleads or deludes

Synonyms

• deception
• hype
• deceit    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dupery
• fiddle
• fetch
• hocus-pocus
• jugglery
• legerdemain
• list    [⇒ thesaurus]
• mislead (noun)
• prestidigitation    [⇒ thesaurus]
• Punic faith
• rinky-dink (archaic)
• ruse
• sleight of hand (idiomatic)
• subterfuge
• swack (dated, UK, slang)
• trickery

Hyponyms

• 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

• lie    [⇒ thesaurus]
• deceive    [⇒ thesaurus]
• deceiver    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “545. deception” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “deception” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.