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deception
noun as in misleading; being dishonest
Strongest matches
betrayal, deceit, disinformation, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, hypocrisy, lying, mendacity, treachery, trickery, untruth
Strong matches
artifice, beguilement, blarney, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, equivocation, flimflam, fraudulence, guile, hokum, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, pretense, prevarication, sophism, treason, trickiness, trumpery
Weak match
noun as in trick
Strong matches
bluff, boondoggle, catch, cheat, chicane, con, decoy, device, dodge, fallacy, feint, fib, gimmick, hogwash, hustle, imposture, jive, malarkey, pretext, ride, sham, shift, shuck, snare, stall, sting, story, stratagem, swindle, trap, whitewash, wile, wrinkle
Weak matches
bilk, con game, confidence game, crock, fast one, fast shuffle, mare's-nest, snow job
Example Sentences
Goodall, in removing the barriers, raised primatology to new heights, opening the way for research on subjects ranging from political coalitions among baboons to the use of deception by an array of primates.
Going undercover involves deception and intrusion as tools of public interest journalism, and to justify this there needs to be sufficient evidence of wrongdoing.
It also serves the purpose of justifying Eleanor’s well-intentioned deception with lessons from the Torah.
“As always, we leave those creative decisions to artists themselves while continuing our work to protect them against spam, impersonation, and deception, and providing listeners with greater transparency about the music they hear.”
Hamas dismissed his words in a statement on Tuesday, saying Netanyahu bears “full responsibility” for the hostages’ lives, and that the U.S. used a “policy of deception” to cover up Israeli “war crimes.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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