| 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: | shiftiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceit |
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 |
| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
ad captandum, adulterated, artificial, babyshed, barefaced, bastard, bogus, brummagem, calophantic, catchpenny, catchy, colorable, contraband, counterfeit, covinous, cunning, deceitful, deceived, deceiving, deceptious, deceptive, delusive, delusory, devious, disguised, double-dealing, elusive, ersatz, factitious, fair-weather, faithless, feigned, fraudulent, fucatory, ill-gotten, illegitimate, illicit, illusive, illusory, insidious, make-believe, meretricious, mock, parlous, pawky, pinchbeck, predatory, prestigiatory, prestigious, pretended, pseudo, rotten at the core, scamped, sham, simulated, so-called, sophisticated, spurious, supposititious, surreptitious, tinsel, tricky, trumped-up, two-faced, unconscionable, unscrupulous, unsound, unsupported by evidence, untrue, wildcat
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