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| Main Entry: | duplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
| Synonyms: | artifice, chicanery, cunning, deceit, dirty pool*, dirty work*, dishonesty, double-dealing, dualism, faithlessness, falsehood, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, one-upmanship, skullduggery, treachery, Judas kiss, dirty dealing, dirty trick, dissemblance, dissimulation, duality, perfidiousness, perfidy, stab in back, treacherousness, two-facedness, twoness |
| Notes: | duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, forthrightness, trustworthiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chicanery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, trickery |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheating, dishonesty, dodge, double-dealing*, duplicity, feint, fraud, gambit, hanky-panky*, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, skullduggery, sophistry, stratagem, subterfuge, chicane, deviousness, double-crossing, fourberie, furtiveness, sharp practice, surreptitiousness, underhandedness, wiles |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truthfulness, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying; unwillingness to tell the truth |
| Synonyms: | artifice, bunk, cheating, chicanery, corruption, craft, cunning, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam*, fraud, graft, guile, hanky-panky*, hocus-pocus*, infamy, infidelity, mendacity, racket, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, chicane, criminality, crookedness, fourberie, fraudulence, improbity, insidiousness, perfidiousness, perfidy, rascality, sharp practice, slyness, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, frankness, honesty, sincerity, truthfulness, openness, scrupulousness |
* = 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: | falsity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty, deception |
| Synonyms: | canard, cheating, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, error, faithlessness, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fib, fraud, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, infidelity, insincerity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, sham, story, tale, treachery, unfaithfulness, untruth, deceptiveness, disingenuousness, erroneousness, fraudulence, perfidiousness, perfidy, uncandidness, unreality |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth, truthfulness |
| 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: | 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: | infidelity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty to an obligation |
| Synonyms: | adultery, affair, betrayal, cheating, duplicity, faithlessness, falsity, lewdness, treachery, treason, two-timing, unfaithfulness, bad faith, extramarital relations, falseness, inconstancy, perfidiousness, perfidy, treacherousness |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | lip service |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty talk |
| Synonyms: | duplicity, empty talk, hypocrisy, insincerity, lie, sham, sweet talk, hollow words, hypocritical respect, jive, lip devotion, lip homage, lip praise, lip reverence, lip worship, mouth honor, mouthing, smooth talk, token agreement, tokenism, tongue in cheek, unctuousness |
| Main Entry: | quibble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | objection, complaint |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cavil, criticism, dodge, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, nicety, niggle*, pretense, prevarication, protest, quirk, shift, sophism, subterfuge, subtlety, hair-splitter, nit-picker, quiddity |
| Antonyms: | agreement, approval, concurrence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | treachery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty, dishonesty |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, corruption, dirty pool*, dirty work*, disaffection, dodge, double-cross*, double-dealing*, duplicity, faithlessness, fake, flimflam*, grift, gyp*, infidelity, racket*, scam*, shell game*, skin game*, spoof, stab in the back*, sweet talk*, treason, two-timing, whitewash*, bunco, dirty dealing, dirty trick, falseness, fast shuffle, perfidiousness, perfidy, put-on, recreancy, sellout, treacherousness |
| Antonyms: | constancy, devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, honesty, love, loyalty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | treason |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty |
| Synonyms: | crime, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, disaffection, dishonesty, duplicity, faithlessness, mutiny, revolt, revolutionary, sedition, subversion, treachery, breach of faith, lèse- majesté, perfidy, seditious act, seditiousness, traitorousness |
| Antonyms: | allegiance, devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | Jekyll and Hyde |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dual personality |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, duplicity, split personality, Proteus, double life, two-facedness |
| Main Entry: | betrayal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exhibition of disloyalty |
| Synonyms: | deception, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, treachery, treason, trickery, unfaithfulness, Judas kiss, double-crossing, falseness, giveaway, let-down, perfidy, sellout |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, loyalty, protection, support |
| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practice of misleading |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheating, chicanery, craft, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, dirty pool*, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, pretense, smoke and mirrors*, treachery, trickery, two-timing, ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, chicane, cozening, craftiness, defrauding, dirty dealing, dissemblance, dissimulation, entrapping, fraudulence, overreaching, slyness, trapping, two-facedness, underhandedness |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, openness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | fraud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trickery, deception |
| Synonyms: | artifice, blackmail, cheat, chicanery, con, craft*, deceit, double-dealing*, duplicity, extortion, fake, flimflam*, graft, guile, hanky-panky*, hoax, hocus-pocus*, hustle*, imposture, line, misrepresentation, racket, scam, sell, shakedown*, sham*, skunk*, smoke*, song*, song and dance*, sting, string, swindle, treachery, bamboozlement, barratry, chicane, dupery, duping, fast one, fast shuffle, fourberie, fraudulence, hoodwinking, sharp practice, spuriousness, swindling |
| Antonyms: | fairness, honesty, justice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceit |
| Synonyms: | ambush, artifice, blind, bluff, casuistry, cheat, chicanery, con*, concealment, conspiracy, conundrum, cover, deception, decoy, delusion, device, disguise, distortion, dodge*, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, fabrication, fake, falsehood, feint, forgery, fraud, game, gimmick, hoax, illusion, imposition, imposture, intrigue, invention, machination, maneuver, perjury, plot, ploy, pretense, ruse, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, treachery, wile, circumvention |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cunning |
| Synonyms: | artifice, astuteness, deceit, duplicity, guile, trickery, artfulness, canniness, craftiness, slyness, wiliness |
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