Synonyms for boondoggle
- betrayal
- deceit
- disinformation
- duplicity
- falsehood
- fraud
- hypocrisy
- lying
- mendacity
- treachery
- trickery
- untruth
- beguilement
- blarney
- cheat
- circumvention
- cozenage
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceitfulness
- deceptiveness
- dirt
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- dupery
- equivocation
- flimflam
- fraudulence
- guile
- hokum
- imposition
- insincerity
- juggling
- legerdemain
- pretense
- prevarication
- sophism
- treason
- trickiness
- trumpery
- defraudation
- fast one
- snow job
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Antonyms for boondoggle
- faithfulness
- forthrightness
- honesty
- loyalty
- sincerity
- truth
- openness
- frankness
- honor
- trustworthiness
- truthfulness
- uprightness
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WORD ORIGIN
1935, American English, of uncertain origin, popularized during the New Deal as a contemptuous word for make-work projects for the unemployed. Said to have been a pioneer word for "gadget;" it also was by 1932 a Boy Scout term for a kind of woven braid.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR BOONDOGGLE
dallied
verbdawdle, delaydally
verbdawdle, delaydeception
nounmisleading; being dishonest- beguilement
- betrayal
- blarney
- boondoggle
- cheat
- circumvention
- cozenage
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceit
- deceitfulness
- deceptiveness
- defraudation
- dirt
- disinformation
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- dupery
- duplicity
- equivocation
- falsehood
- fast one
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- guile
- hokum
- hypocrisy
- imposition
- insincerity
- juggling
- legerdemain
- lying
- mendacity
- pretense
- prevarication
- snow job
- sophism
- treachery
- treason
- trickery
- trickiness
- trumpery
- untruth
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.