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deception - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, blarney*, cheat, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, dirt, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, flimflam*, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job*, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trumpery, untruth, beguilement, boondoggle, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, deceptiveness, defraudation, disinformation, dissimulation, dupery, fast one, fraudulence, hokum, trickiness |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty, honor, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, openness, trustworthiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ambush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying in wait; concealed position |
| Synonyms: | camouflage, concealment, deception, hiding, lurking, pitfall, shelter, trap, trick*, ambuscade, ambushment, hiding place, waiting, waylaying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | casuistry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overgeneral reasoning |
| Synonyms: | chicanery, deception, delusion, equivocation, evasion, fallacy, lie, sophism, sophistry, trick, deceptiveness, oversubtleness, speciousness, spuriousness |
| Main Entry: | charade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretense |
| Synonyms: | deception, disguise, fake, farce, make-believe, mimicry, pageant, parody, pretension, travesty, trick, pantomime, pretentiousness, put-on |
| Main Entry: | con |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | bluff, cheat, crime, deception, double-cross, dupe, fraud, graft, mockery, swindle, take in, gold brick |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fake, forgery |
| Synonyms: | actor, bogus*, bum, copy, deceit, deception, dummy, facsimile, fraud, gyp, hoax, humbug, imitation, imposture, phony, pseudo, reproduction, sell*, sham, junque, put-on, simulacrum |
| Antonyms: | reality, real thing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decoy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bait, trap |
| Synonyms: | attraction, beard*, blind, booster, camouflage, catch, chicanery, come-on, deception, enticement, facade, fake, front, imitation, inducement, lure, plant, pretense, sitting duck*, snare, stick, stool pigeon*, temptation, trick, trickery, allurement, blow off*, chicane, drawing card, ensnarement, inveiglement, nark, seducement, shill, stoolie |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misconception, misbelief |
| Synonyms: | apparition, blunder, casuistry, chicanery, daydream, deception, deceptiveness, dream, eidolon, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment*, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, ignis fatuus, illusion, lapse, mirage, misapprehension, mistake, optical illusion, oversight, phantasm, phantom, pipe dream*, self-deception, shade, speciousness, spuriousness, trickery, trip, vision |
| Notes: | allusion is an 'indirect mention,' illusion is 'false impression,' and delusion is 'deception' which is much stronger than illusion hallucination is from disturbed sensory perceptions; delusion is from disturbed thinking an illusion is an image or conception of something actual or real that presents itself to the mind in an abnormal or distorted manner; a delusion is a false belief about oneself or other people that persists despite its being at variance with the facts |
| Antonyms: | actuality, certainty, fact, reality, surety, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | double-dealing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | betrayal, cheating |
| Synonyms: | chicanery, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, foul play*, fraud, hanky-panky*, hypocrisy, mendacity, treachery, trickery, two-timing, bad faith, chicane, fourberie, perfidy, sharp practice |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truthfulness, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | equivocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avoidance of an issue |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover-up, deceit, deception, delusion, distortion, double entendre, double talk, duplicity, evasion, fallacy, fib, lie, line*, lying, misrepresentation, prevarication, run-around, song*, song and dance*, sophistry, stall, stonewall*, waffle*, amphibology, deceptiveness, dissimulation, double meaning, doubtfulness, equivocality, fibbing, hedging, quibbling routine, shuffling, speciousness, spuriousness, tergiversation |
| Antonyms: | facing, meeting, directness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imposter, copy |
| Synonyms: | actor, charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, deception, fabrication, flimflam*, forgery, fraud, hoax, imitation, imposition, imposture, make-believe, mountebank, phony, plant*, pretender, pretense, pseudo*, reproduction, scam, sham*, sleight, spoof, swindle, trick, bluffer, faker, four-flusher, gold brick, junque, put-on |
| Antonyms: | original, reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fallacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, misconception |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, delusion, deviation, equivocation, erratum, error, evasion, falsehood, flaw, heresy, inconsistency, mistake, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, subterfuge, untruth, deceptiveness, elusion, erroneousness, faultiness, illogicality, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, non sequitur, speciousness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, evidence, fact, honesty, reality, right, surety, truth |
| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, distortion, equivocation, error, fable, fabrication, fallacy, falsity, fib, fiction, figment, fraud, hogwash*, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham*, story, tale, tall tale*, untruth, whopper*, yarn, dissimulation, erroneousness, fakery, fallaciousness, falseness, feigning, fibbery, half truth, untruism, untruthfulness |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slyness, cleverness |
| Synonyms: | artifice, chicanery, craft, cunning, deceit, deception, dirty pool*, dirty work*, dishonesty, double-cross*, duplicity, foul play*, run-around*, ruse, stab in the back*, treachery, trickery, artfulness, craftiness, dirty dealing, dirty trick, dissemblance, dissimulation, jive*, sellout, sharp practice, trickiness, wiliness |
| Antonyms: | artlessness, frankness, honesty, sincerity, naivety, openness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hanky-panky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | monkey business |
| Synonyms: | amour, chicanery, dalliance, deception, dirty pool, double-dealing, fling, flirtation, fraud, liaison, love affair, mischief, monkey business*, romance, shenanigans*, skullduggery*, subterfuge, trickery, chicane, devilry, fooling around, fourberie, funny business, funny business, hankie-pankie, hokey-pokey, knavery, machinations, sexual activity, sharp practice |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, honesty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoax |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | cheat, cock-and-bull story*, con*, con game*, crock*, deceit, deception, dodge, fabrication, fake, fib, flimflam*, fraud, gimmick, gyp*, humbug*, hustle, imposture, joke, lie, practical joke, prank, racket, ruse, scam, sell, shift, snow job*, spoof, sting, swindle, whopper*, falsification, fast one, fast shuffle, hooey, put-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hocus-pocus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleight of hand |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, abracadabra, artifice, cant, chant, charm, cheating, chicanery, deceit, deception, deception, delusion, flimflam*, fraud, gibberish, hoax, humbug, imposture, incantation, jargon, juggling, legerdemain, magic, magic, monkey business, mumbo jumbo*, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, open sesame*, rigmarole*, sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors, spell, swindle, trick, trickery, conjuring, gobbledegook*, hocus, magic words, mummery, mystification, occultism |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hypocrisy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceitfulness, pretense |
| Synonyms: | affectation, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, double-dealing, duplicity, falsity, fraud, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service*, mockery, quackery, bad faith, dissembling, dissimulation, false profession, glibness, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, unctuousness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, righteousness, sincerity, truth, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false appearance; false belief |
| Synonyms: | apparition, bubble*, chimera, confusion, daydream, deception, delusion, déjè vu, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment of imagination, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, hocus-pocus*, idolism, ignus fatuus, image, invention, make-believe, mirage, misapprehension, misbelief, misconception, misimpression, mockery, myth, optical illusion, paramnesia, phantasm, pipe dream*, rainbow*, seeming, semblance, trip*, virtual reality |
| Antonyms: | certainty, event, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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