| Main Entry: | feint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretense |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bait, blind, bluff, cheat, deceit, distraction, dodge, duck, expedient, fake, gambit, hoax, hoodwinking, imposture, make-believe, maneuver, mock attack, play, ploy, pretension, pretext, ruse, sham*, shift, snare, stall, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile |
| Notes: | faint (verb) means to pass out from weakness or to lose consciousness - faint (adjective) means barely perceptible or lacking clarity or distinctness; feint (noun) means any distracting or deceptive maneuver - feint (verb) means to deceive by a mock action |
Antonyms: |
truth |
| Main Entry: | bluff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boast; deceit |
Synonyms: |
bluster, braggadocio, bragging, bravado, deception, delusion, facade, fake, false colors, false front, feint, fraud, front, humbug, jiving, lie, pretense, pretext, ruse, sham, show, snow*, stall, subterfuge, trick |
| 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: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | particular type of trick, misleading |
Synonyms: |
artifice, blind, cheat, chicanery, crocodile tears, deception, dirty trick, dirty work, duplicity, fake, feint, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, imposture, misrepresentation, pretense, ruse, sell, sellout, sham, shift, smoke and mirrors, snow job, soft soap, spoof, stratagem, subterfuge, sweet talk, swindle, trick, whitewash, wile |
| 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: | device |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ploy, scheme, maneuver |
Synonyms: |
artifice, cabal, chicanery, clever move, craft, craftiness, cunningness, design, dodge, evasion, expedient, fake, feint, finesse, gambit, game, gimmick, improvisation, loophole, machination, method, pattern, plan, plot, project, proposition, purpose, racket, ruse, shift, stratagem, strategy, stunt, subterfuge, trap, trick, wile |
| Main Entry: | fence |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dodge; beat around the bush |
Synonyms: |
avoid, baffle, cavil, duck, equivocate, evade, feint, foil, hedge, maneuver, outwit, parry, prevaricate, quibble, shift, shirk, sidestep, stonewall, tergiversate |
Antonyms: |
face, meet |
| Main Entry: | finesse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | know-how, maneuver |
Synonyms: |
acumen, adeptness, adroitness, artfulness, artifice, big stick, bluff, cleverness, competence, con, craft, craftiness, cunning, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, feint, gimmick, grift, guile, polish, quickness, racket, run-around, ruse, savoir-faire, savvy, skill, sophistication, stratagem, subtlety, tact, trick, wile |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | gimmick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contrived object; scheme |
Synonyms: |
aid, apparatus, artifice, catch, concern, counterfeit, deceit, device, dodge*, fake, feint, fixture, fun, gadget, gambit, game, gizmo, imposture, instrument, jest, maneuver, means, method, ploy, ruse, secret, shift, sport, stratagem, stunt, trick, widget, wile |
| Main Entry: | imposture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fraud, trick |
Synonyms: |
artifice, cheat, con, copy, counterfeit, deceit, deception, fabrication, fake, feint, fiddle, flimflam, forgery, gambit, hoax, hocus-pocus, illusion, imitation, impersonation, imposition, make-believe, maneuver, masquerade, phony, ploy, pretense, pretension, put-on, quackery, ruse, sell*, sham, sleight, spoof, stratagem, swindle, wile |
Antonyms: |
honesty, reality, truth |