Thesaurus / hocus-pocus
other words 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
MOST RELEVANT
opposites of hocus-pocus
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"There's some hocus-pocus about this," whispered Trask, as he and Locke moved forward for a private talk.
ISLE O' DREAMSFREDERICK F. MOORE
Can't you pull the cork out of your magnetism with your teeth and hocus-pocus them handcuffs off?'
THE GENTLE GRAFTERO. HENRY
With hocus-pocus like that no dog is lured from the stove in the real world.
ERDGEIST (EARTH-SPIRIT)FRANK WEDEKIND
I defy any man to look between the lines and scent my hocus-pocus game.
THE LONG CHANCEPETER B. KYNE
If anything, she's deadly logical; when her mind puzzles us it's never by hocus-pocus, but simply by swiftness in operation.
BROTHER COPASSIR ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH
Why, I went to see one Mr. Morrison, the hocus-pocus man; they said as how he could eat a case knife.
THE CONTRASTROYALL TYLER
I queried: for I did not understand all this hocus-pocus of locating any given spot in the Iowa prairies in 1855.
VANDEMARK'S FOLLYHERBERT QUICK
All this, of course, is hocus-pocus, and the judicious are not deceived by it for an instant.
IN DEFENSE OF WOMENH. L. MENCKEN
But it's plain to be seen there's no hocus-pocus about this thing.
THE DIAMOND PINCAROLYN WELLS
There was something behind the hocus-pocus; something that moved one's curiosity and tempted one to rash experiment.
WYNDHAM'S PALHAROLD BINDLOSS
WORDS RELATED TO HOCUS-POCUS
- 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
- artifice
- bamboozlement
- barratry
- blackmail
- cheat
- chicane
- chicanery
- con
- craft
- deceit
- double-dealing
- dupery
- 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
- apparition
- bubble
- chimera
- confusion
- daydream
- deception
- delusion
- error
- fallacy
- false impression
- fancy
- fantasy
- figment of imagination
- 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.