| Main Entry: | chicanery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, trickery |
Synonyms: |
artifice, cheating, chicane, deviousness, dishonesty, dodge, double-crossing, double-dealing, duplicity, feint, fourberie, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, hanky-panky, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, sharp practice, skullduggery, sophistry, stratagem, subterfuge, surreptitiousness, underhandedness, wiles |
| Notes: | duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness |
Antonyms: |
forthrightness, honesty, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | con |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive, defraud |
Synonyms: |
bamboozle*, bilk, cajole, cheat, chicane, coax, double-cross, dupe, flimflam, fool, hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, inveigle, mislead, rip off, rook, sweet-talk, swindle, trick, wheedle |
Antonyms: |
be forthright, be honest |
| 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: | trick |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bilk, bluff, catch, cheat, chicane, con, con game, confidence game, cover-up, crock, decoy, device, dodge, fallacy, fast one, fast shuffle, feint, fib, fraud, gimmick, hoax, hogwash, hustle, illusion, imposture, jive, lie, malarkey, mare's-nest, pretext, ride*, ruse, scam, sham, shift, shuck, snare, snow job, stall, sting, story, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, trick, whitewash, wile, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | decoy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bait, trap |
Synonyms: |
allurement, attraction, beard, blind, blow off, booster, camouflage, catch, chicane, chicanery, come-on, deception, drawing card, ensnarement, enticement, facade, fake, front, imitation, inducement, inveiglement, lure, nark, plant, pretense, seducement, shill, sitting duck, snare, stick, stool pigeon, stoolie, temptation, trick, trickery |
| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying; unwillingness to tell the truth |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, sharp practice, slyness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
Antonyms: |
fairness, frankness, honesty, openness, scrupulousness, sincerity, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | double-dealing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | betrayal, cheating |
Synonyms: |
bad faith, chicane, chicanery, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, foul play, fourberie, fraud, hanky-panky, hypocrisy, mendacity, perfidy, sharp practice, treachery, trickery, two-timing |
Antonyms: |
forthrightness, honesty, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | dupe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fool someone |
Synonyms: |
baffle, bamboozle*, beguile, betray, catch, cheat, chicane, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, double-cross, dust*, flimflam, gull, hoax, hoodwink*, hornswoggle, jerk around, kid, mislead, outwit, overreach, pull one's leg, pull something, rip off, rook, rope in, shaft, spoof, swindle, trick, victimize |
| Main Entry: | fool |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trick, mislead |
Synonyms: |
bamboozle*, bluff, cheat, chicane, con, deceive, delude, diddle, dupe, fake out, flimflam, fox*, gull, hoax, hoodwink*, jive, juke, kid, lead on, make believe, outfox, play a trick on, play-act, pretend, put on, put one over on, scam*, snow*, spoof, suck in, take in*, trifle |
| Main Entry: | fraud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trickery, deception |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bamboozlement, barratry, blackmail, cheat, chicane, chicanery, con, craft*, deceit, double-dealing, dupery, duping, duplicity, extortion, fake, fast one, fast shuffle, flimflam, fourberie, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hoax, hocus-pocus, hoodwinking, hustle*, imposture, line, misrepresentation, racket, scam, sell, shakedown, sham*, sharp practice, skunk, smoke*, song and dance, song*, spuriousness, sting, string, swindle, swindling, treachery |
Antonyms: |
fairness, honesty, justice |