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| Main Entry: | bluff |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive |
| Synonyms: | affect, beguile, betray, con, counterfeit, defraud, delude, double-cross, fake*, feign, fool, humbug*, juggle, lie, mislead, pretend, put on*, sham*, shuck*, simulate, snow*, take in*, trick, bunco, fake out, illude, jive*, psych out |
| Antonyms: | come clean, reveal, tell truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dishonest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lying, untruthful |
| Synonyms: | backbiting*, bent, cheating, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, designing, disreputable, double-dealing, elusive, false, fraudulent, mendacious, misleading, perfidious, recreant, shady, shifty, sinister, slippery*, sneaky, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, unctuous, underhanded, unfair, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, villainous, wily, bluffing, deceiving, double-crossing, guileful, hoodwinking, sneaking, swindling |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, ethical, fair, frank, honest, moral, open, scrupulous, trustworthy, truthful, principled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fooling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | joking, tricks |
| Synonyms: | farce, high jinks, horseplay, jesting, mockery, nonsense, pretense, roughhouse, sham*, teasing, trifling, bluffing, buffoonery, clownishness, frolicking, joshing, kidding, making light, roughhousing, rowdiness, skylarking, spoofing |
| Antonyms: | seriousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alleged; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, avowed, bogus, charlatan, cheating, concealed, counterfeit, covered, factitious, fake, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, lying, make-believe, masked, mock, ostensible, phony, pretend, professed, pseudo*, quack*, sham*, simulated, so-called, spurious, supposed, bluffing, dissimulated, impostrous, imposturous, purported, put-on, shammed |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever, devious |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, captious, covert, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing, elusive, foxy, furtive, illusory, impish, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, mean, mischievous, roguish, scheming, secret, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, smart, smooth, stealthy, subtle, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, wily, bluffing, conniving, dissembling, guileful, plotting, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | honest, open, simple, straight, straightforward, unclever |
| Main Entry: | untruthful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | cheating, corrupt, crooked, deceitful, deceptive, disreputable, double-dealing, false, fraudulent, lying, misleading, shady, shifty, sneaky, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, underhanded, untrustworthy, bluffing, deceiving, double-crossing, sneaking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretending |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feigning |
| Synonyms: | acting, cheating, concealment, counterfeiting, covering, pretense, simulation, bluffing, dissembling, dissimulation, masking, shamming |
| Main Entry: | affect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend, imitate |
| Synonyms: | act, adopt, assume, bluff, contrive, counterfeit, fake, feign, put on, sham*, simulate, take on, aspire to, do a bit, lay it on thick, make out like, playact, put up a front |
| Notes: | as a noun, affect means 'a feeling or emotion,' whereas effect means 'the result or consequence of some action or process'; as a verb, to affect means 'to exert an influence upon,' and implies the action of a stimulus that can produce a response or reaction, whereas to effect means 'to bring about as a result' effect is a noun referring to a thing, but if you mean an action, that is affect; if you want the verb meaning 'achieve, bring about,' that is effect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, adopt, affect, bluff, counterfeit, fake, feign, imitate, impersonate, mimic, pretend, put on, simulate |
| Main Entry: | beguile |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fool |
| Synonyms: | betray, bluff, burn*, cheat, chisel, con, deceive, delude, double-cross, dupe, entice, exploit, finesse, flimflam*, gyp*, have, hoodwink*, jockey, juggle, lure, manipulate, mislead, play, rook*, scam, seduce, shave*, snow*, stick*, string along, take, take in, trick, impose on, play for a sucker, rope in, suck in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | betray |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be disloyal |
| Synonyms: | abandon, be unfaithful, bite the hand that feeds you, blow the whistle*, bluff, break faith, break promise, break trust, break with, commit treason, cross, deceive, deliver up, delude, desert, double-cross, finger*, forsake, go back on, inform against, inform on, jilt, knife*, let down, mislead, play Judas, play false, seduce, sell down the river, sell out, stab in the back*, take in*, trick, turn in, turn informer, turn state's evidence, walk out on |
| Antonyms: | be faithful, be loyal, defend, protect, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make deceitful imitation |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, affect, ape, assume, bluff, carbon, cheat, clone, coin, copy, defraud, delude, ditto, do, dupe, fabricate, fake, feign, forge, imitate, impersonate, knock off*, mimic, mint, phony*, pretend, put on*, sham, simulate, act like, circulate bad money, do like, go like, make like, make money, mimeo, phony up, stat |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delude |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive, fool |
| Synonyms: | beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, con, cozen, double-cross, dupe*, gull*, hoax*, hoodwink*, juggle*, mislead, outfox, snow*, string along, sucker, take in, trick, caboodle, disinform, do a number on, illude, impose on, jive*, lead up garden path, misguide, mousetrap, play trick on |
| Antonyms: | be truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | double-cross |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | to deceive or betray someone |
| Synonyms: | beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, con, cross, deceive, defraud, dupe, hoodwink*, humbug*, juggle, mislead, scam, sell, sell out*, sell out, split, stab in the back, swindle, take in, trick, two-time*, two-time, double deal, four-flush, illude, sell down the river |
| Antonyms: | be open, tell truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, assume, bluff, copy, counterfeit, disguise, dissimulate, fabricate, feign, forge, put on, put on an act*, sham, simulate, spoof |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feign |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, assume, bluff*, counterfeit, devise, dissemble, dissimulate, fabricate, fake, forge, imagine, imitate, invent, play, play possum*, put on, sham*, simulate, stonewall*, do a bit, four-flush, give appearance of, make show of, phony up, put on act, put up a front |
| Antonyms: | be true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | finesse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | maneuver, manipulate |
| Synonyms: | angle, beguile, bluff, exploit, finagle*, jockey*, operate, play, rig*, wangle, play games, pull strings, pull wires |
| Antonyms: | mishandle, bobble |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fool |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trick, mislead |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, bluff, cheat, con, deceive, delude, diddle, dupe, flimflam*, gull, hoax, hoodwink*, kid, make believe, outfox, pretend, put on, scam*, snow*, spoof*, take in*, trifle, chicane, fake out, fox*, jive*, juke, lead on, play a trick on, play-act, put one over on, suck in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoax |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | Murphy, bamboozle*, bluff, chicane, con, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fleece, flimflam*, fool, frame, gammon, gull, hoodwink*, play games with, pull one's leg, rook*, run a game on, set up*, sting*, swindle, take for a ride, take in* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoodwink |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, beat out of, bilk, bluff, buffalo, burn, cheat, con, defraud, double-cross, dupe, fake, fleece, fool, gull, gyp*, hoax, hornswoggle, kid, mislead, pull a fast one, pull the wool over one's eyes, scam, screw, suck in, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride, take to the cleaners, trick, victimize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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