Thesaurus / smoke mirrors
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synonyms for smoke mirrors
- artful deception
- deception
- flimflam
- hocus-pocus
- hokum
- illusion
- legerdemain
- prestidigitation
- sleight of hand
- snow job
- bill of goods
- con
- conning
- flattery
- flimflam
- hosing
- ripoff
- scam
- smoke and mirrors
- soft sell
- soft soap
- song and dance
- the business
- chicanery
- deception
- trickery
- conjuration
- deceit
- double-dealing
- escamotage
- hocus-pocus
- legerdemain
- magic
- prestidigitation
- smoke and mirrors
- ambidexterity
- ambidextrousness
- artifice
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- craft
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceitfulness
- deception
- dishonesty
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- fraud
- fraudulence
- guile
- hypocrisy
- imposition
- pretense
- slyness
- trapping
- treachery
- trickery
- cozening
- defrauding
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dissemblance
- entrapping
- overreaching
- smoke and mirrors
- two-facedness
- two-timing
- underhandedness
- chicanery
- deception
- dishonesty
- duplicity
- fraud
- hypocrisy
- treachery
- trickery
- ambidexterity
- ambidextrousness
- artifice
- cheating
- chicane
- craft
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceitfulness
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- fraudulence
- guile
- imposition
- pretense
- slyness
- trapping
- cozening
- defrauding
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dissemblance
- entrapping
- overreaching
- smoke and mirrors
- two-facedness
- two-timing
- underhandedness
- chicanery
- deception
- duplicity
- fraud
- hoax
- misrepresentation
- subterfuge
- artifice
- blind
- cheat
- fake
- feint
- flimflam
- fraudulence
- humbug
- imposture
- pretense
- ruse
- sell
- sellout
- sham
- shift
- spoof
- stratagem
- swindle
- trick
- whitewash
- wile
- crocodile tears
- dirty trick
- dirty work
- smoke and mirrors
- snow job
- soft soap
- sweet-talk
- 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
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How to use smoke mirrors in a sentence
The young men gathered round him and offered him a cigar, which he accepted and began to smoke.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYAfter a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRThe smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDENIn most club card-rooms smoking is not permitted, but at the Pandemonium it is the fashion to smoke everywhere.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSWhen the smoke and dust cleared away nothing stirred on the whole of that piece of ground.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONIt's good for nothing but to choke a man and fill him full of smoke and embers.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.Smokers, tossing pipes and puffing smoke over the dinner-table, forgot all cleanliness and modesty.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.He drew up the rocker, hoisted his slippered feet on the rail, and proceeded to smoke a cigar.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINHis Shop is the Randenvous of spitting, where men dialogue with their noses, and their conversation is smoke.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.Ribsy snapped at it, and swallowed it, and the next instant disappeared with a tremendous explosion in a great cloud of smoke.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL