Thesaurus / decoy
other words for decoy
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- allurement
- attraction
- beard
- blind
- booster
- camouflage
- catch
- chicane
- chicanery
- come-on
- deception
- enticement
- facade
- fake
- front
- imitation
- inducement
- lure
- nark
- plant
- pretense
- shill
- snare
- stick
- stoolie
- temptation
- trick
- trickery
- blow off
- drawing card
- ensnarement
- inveiglement
- seducement
- sitting duck
- stool pigeon
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Irving, a more elusive player than Harden, should have been the decoy and release valve if Durant was covered.
WITH KYRIE IRVING BACK, ROOKIE COACH STEVE NASH HAS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET HIS STARS ALIGNEDBEN GOLLIVERJANUARY 21, 2021WASHINGTON POST
The Grizzlies hedge and recover in response to Tatum’s first screen, but that was just a decoy.
GIVE BOSTON’S KEMBA WALKER A DOUBLE PICK AND WATCH HIM WORKMICHAEL PINAAUGUST 31, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
The impudence of the authorities, to decoy an unsuspecting workingman across the State line, and then arrest him as my accomplice!
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMAN
The boy's pulses leaped toward these things even while his lips curled in disdain at the shallow decoy.
THE DRAGON PAINTERMARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA
You make use of your power to run a common decoy house, to do away with men for money.
THE DOUBLE FOURE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
The decoy was barely in place before he was on the floor while a volley of lead and a flight of arrows rained against the roof.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTER
They saw nothing but the wretched decoy vanishing behind the nearest tents.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READE
Robinson knew him directly; it was Walker, who had been the decoy-duck the night his tent was robbed.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READE
The man he has saved, as he has saved you, was a decoy,—one of my policemen.
TWO MEN OF SANDY BARBRET HARTE
I came to tell you, Alexander, Capper has explained all about—about the decoy!
TWO MEN OF SANDY BARBRET HARTE
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