| Main Entry: | deceitfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craftiness |
Synonyms: |
double-dealing, duplicity, knavery, wile |
Antonyms: |
honesty |
| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practice of misleading |
Synonyms: |
ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, cozening, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, defrauding, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, entrapping, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, overreaching, pretense, slyness, smoke and mirrors, trapping, treachery, trickery, two-facedness, two-timing, underhandedness |
Antonyms: |
frankness, honesty, openness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
Synonyms: |
beguilement, betrayal, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, defraudation, dirt, disinformation, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, fast one, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth |
Antonyms: |
frankness, honesty, honor, openness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | disloyalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unfaithfulness |
Synonyms: |
apostasy, bad faith, betrayal of trust, breach of trust, breaking of faith, deceitfulness, disaffection, double-dealing, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, recreancy, sedition, seditiousness, subversive activity, treachery, treason, untrueness, violation |
Antonyms: |
faithfulness, loyalty, trueness, trustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | perjury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying while under oath |
Synonyms: |
deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, false oath, false swearing, false testimony, falsehood, falsification, untruth, untruthfulness |
| Main Entry: | treason |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty |
Synonyms: |
breach of faith, crime, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, disaffection, dishonesty, duplicity, faithlessness, lèse- majesté, mutiny, perfidy, revolt, revolutionary, sedition, seditious act, seditiousness, subversion, traitorousness, treachery |
Antonyms: |
allegiance, devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | insincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distortion |
Synonyms: |
deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, falsity, hypocrisy, lies, pretense |
| Main Entry: | prevarication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
Synonyms: |
deceitfulness, dishonesty, distortion, equivocation, falsehood, fib, lie |
| Main Entry: | quackery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charlatanism |
Synonyms: |
deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, imposture, misrepresentation, pretense, trickery |
| Main Entry: | seditiousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | treason |
Synonyms: |
breach of faith, crime, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, disaffection, dishonesty, duplicity, faithlessness, lèse- majesté, mutiny, perfidy, revolt, revolutionary, sedition, seditious act, subversion, traitorousness, treachery |