Synonyms for delusory
adj deceptivecounterfeit
adjective. fake, simulated
deceitful
adjective. dishonest, insincere
- artful
- astucious
- astute
- beguiling
- clandestine
- counterfeit
- crafty
- cunning
- deceiving
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- disingenuous
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- fallacious
- false
- feline
- foxy
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hypocritical
- illusory
- impostrous
- indirect
- insidious
- knavish
- lying
- mendacious
- misleading
- rascal
- roguish
- shifty
- slick
- sly
- sneaky
- stealthy
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- underhanded
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- wily
deceptive
adjective. dishonest
- ambiguous
- astucious
- beguiling
- bum
- catchy
- crafty
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceiving
- deluding
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- disingenuous
- fake
- fallacious
- false
- fishy
- foxy
- fraudulent
- illusory
- imposturous
- indirect
- insidious
- lying
- misleading
- mock
- oblique
- off
- phony
- plausible
- rascal
- roguish
- scheming
- seeming
- serpentine
- shifty
- slick
- slippery
- sly
- sneaky
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- underhanded
- unreliable
- wily
fallacious
adjective. false, wrong
fictitious
adjective. untrue, made-up
- apocryphal
- artificial
- assumed
- bogus
- chimerical
- concocted
- cooked-up
- counterfeit
- created
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dishonest
- ersatz
- fabricated
- factitious
- fake
- faked
- false
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fashioned
- feigned
- fictional
- fictive
- figmental
- hyped up
- illusory
- imaginary
- imagined
- improvised
- invented
- made
- make-believe
- misleading
- mock
- mythical
- phony
- queer
- romantic
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- suppositious
- supposititious
- synthetic
- trumped-up
- unreal
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