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| 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: | fraud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is false, deceitful |
| Synonyms: | bastard, charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, crook, deceiver, fake, forger, impostor, mechanic*, mountebank, phony, pretender, quack*, racketeer, sham*, swindler, bluffer, double-dealer, four-flusher, hoaxer, horse trader, play actor, shark* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | charlatan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swindler |
| Synonyms: | cheat, con, con artist, fake, fraud, mountebank, phony, pretender, quack, sham, imposter, rip-off artist |
| 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 |
| Notes: | duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truthfulness, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | 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 |
| Antonyms: | honesty, forthrightness, trustworthiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | embezzlement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealing money, often from employer |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, appropriation, fraud, larceny, misuse, theft, thieving, defalcation, filching, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation, pilferage, pilfering, purloining, skimming |
| Antonyms: | compensation, pay, reimbursement, return |
| Main Entry: | extortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blackmail; cheating |
| Synonyms: | arm, badger, bite, coercion, compulsion, demand, force, fraud, oppression, payoff, payola*, pressure, protection, racket, rapacity, shake, shakedown*, squeeze, stealing, swindle, theft, exaction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | faithlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, disbelief, dishonesty, doubt, fraud, infidelity, skepticism, treachery, treason, unfaithfulness, falseness, fickleness, inconstancy, perfidiousness, perfidy, treacherousness |
| Antonyms: | belief, constancy, faithfulness, loyalty |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | foul play |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | treacherous action |
| Synonyms: | corruption, crime, dirty work, felony, fraud, lawbreaking, murder, violence, wrong, bad deed, cruel act, dirty trick, funny business |
| Main Entry: | grift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swindle |
| Synonyms: | cheating, con game*, confidence game, deceit, dirty pool*, double-dealing*, extortion, fix, fraud, racket*, rip-off*, scam, shell game*, stealing, sting, trickery, shady deal |
* = 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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