| 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
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Antonyms: |
frankness, honesty, honor, openness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness
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