| Main Entry: | adultery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extramarital affair |
Synonyms: |
affair, carrying on, cheating, extracurricular activity, fling, fornication, hanky-panky, immorality, infidelity, matinee, playing around, relationship, thing*, two-timing |
Antonyms: |
faithfulness |
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illicit sexual relationship |
Synonyms: |
affaire, amour, carrying on, extracurricular activity, fling, goings-on, hanky-panky, intimacy, intrigue, liaison, love, playing around, relationship, rendezvous, romance, thing together, two-timing |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal concern |
Synonyms: |
affair, assignment, beeswax, carrying on, duty, function, goings-on, hanky-panky, happening, interest, issue, lookout, matter, palaver, point, problem, question, responsibility, subject, task, topic |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
Synonyms: |
artifice, baloney, bamboozlement, bill of goods, bunco, chicanery, con, con game, cover up, cozening, deceit, deception, dirty pool, dirty trick, dodge, double-dealing, fake, fast one, fast shuffle, fix, flimflam, frame, fraud, gyp, hanky-panky, hoax, hoaxing, humbug, hustle, imposture, jazz, jive, plant, put-on, racket, rip-off, run around, scam, sell, shady deal, sham, shell game, snow job, spoof, sting, stunt, swindle, trickery, whitewash, wrong |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
forthrightness, honesty, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | dalliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | love affair |
Synonyms: |
a little on the side, affair, amorous play, carrying on, fling, fooling around, frolicking, hanky-panky, messing around, relationship, seduction, toying, working late at office |
| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | hanky-panky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | monkey business |
Synonyms: |
amour, chicane, chicanery, dalliance, deception, devilry, dirty pool, double-dealing, fling, flirtation, fooling around, fourberie, fraud, funny business, funny business, hankie-pankie, hokey-pokey, knavery, liaison, love affair, machinations, mischief, monkey business, romance, sexual activity, sharp practice, shenanigans*, skullduggery, subterfuge, trickery |
Antonyms: |
faithfulness, honesty |