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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
The Traitors, at its heart, is a game of lying and deception.
As part of the deception campaign, it worked fabulously.
Norwalk resident Andrew Garcia filed a claim Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court that states that James owes him $865.66 because of “fraud, deception, misrepresentation, and any and all basis of legal recovery.”
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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