Synonyms for hocus-pocus
- abracadabra
- artifice
- cant
- chant
- charm
- cheating
- chicanery
- conjuring
- deceit
- deception
- delusion
- flimflam
- fraud
- gibberish
- hoax
- humbug
- imposture
- incantation
- jargon
- juggling
- legerdemain
- magic
- mummery
- mystification
- nonsense
- occultism
- rigmarole
- spell
- swindle
- trick
- trickery
- gobbledegook
- hocus
- magic words
- monkey business
- mumbo jumbo
- open sesame
- sleight of hand
- smoke and mirrors
Antonyms for hocus-pocus
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR HOCUS-POCUS
With hocus-pocus like that no dog is lured from the stove in the real world.
They regard it fixedly as hocus-pocus, childish if not wicked.
You at any rate are not a simpleton to be taken in by any sort of hocus-pocus.
Theres your own prestige too, and all the hocus-pocus and mummery that you know how to work on them.
His holiness made his hocus-pocus with the greatest devotion.
Why seek to limit the duration of hell by some hocus-pocus of interpretation?
What good does he suppose all this hocus-pocus is going to do us?
I defy any man to look between the lines and scent my hocus-pocus game.
I did so, and he began to perform all sorts of hocus-pocus over me.
One more cabalistic performance and the hocus-pocus was ended.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR HOCUS-POCUS
dishonesty
nounlying; unwillingness to tell the truth- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hocus-pocus
- improbity
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- sharp practice
- slyness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
fraud
nountrickery, deception- artifice
- bamboozlement
- barratry
- blackmail
- cheat
- chicane
- chicanery
- con
- craft
- deceit
- double-dealing
- dupery
- duping
- duplicity
- extortion
- fake
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- hoodwinking
- hustle
- imposture
- line
- misrepresentation
- racket
- scam
- sell
- shakedown
- sham
- sharp practice
- skunk
- smoke
- song
- song and dance
- spuriousness
- sting
- string
- swindle
- swindling
- treachery
gibberish
nounnonsense talkhex
nouncurse, spellignis fatuus
nounillusion- apparition
- bubble
- chimera
- confusion
- daydream
- deception
- deja vu
- delusion
- error
- fallacy
- false impression
- fancy
- fantasy
- figment of imagination
- fool's paradise
- ghost
- hallucination
- head trip
- hocus-pocus
- idolism
- ignus fatuus
- image
- invention
- make-believe
- mirage
- misapprehension
- misbelief
- misconception
- misimpression
- mockery
- myth
- optical illusion
- paramnesia
- phantasm
- phantasma
- pipe dream
- rainbow
- seeming
- semblance
- trip
- virtual reality
- will-o'-the-wisp