| Main Entry: | machination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maneuver, plot |
Synonyms: |
artifice, cabal, conspiracy, design, device, dirty work, dodge*, intrigue, monkey business, on the make, ploy, practice, ruse, scheme, sellout, skullduggery, song and dance, stratagem, trick |
| Main Entry: | artifice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hoax; clever act |
Synonyms: |
con, contrivance, device, dodge, expedient, gambit, gimmick, machination, maneuver, play, ploy, racket, ruse, savvy, scam*, stratagem, subterfuge, tactic, wile |
Antonyms: |
candor, frankness, honesty, honor, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, reality, sincerity, truthfulness |
| 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: | complicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conspiracy |
Synonyms: |
abetment, agreement, collaboration, collusion, complot, concurrence, confederacy, connivance, engineering, guilt, guiltiness, implication, intrigue, involvement, machination, manipulation, partnership |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, innocence, noninvolvement, refusal |
| Main Entry: | conspiracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collusion in plan |
Synonyms: |
cabal, complot, confederacy, connivance, countermine, counterplot, covin, disloyalty, fix, frame*, game, hookup, intrigue, league, little game, machination, perfidy, plot, practice, put-up job, scheme, sedition, treacherousness, treachery, treason, trick, trickery |
| Main Entry: | contrivance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plan, fabrication |
Synonyms: |
angle, artifice, brainchild, coinage, design, dodge, expedient, formation, gimmick, intrigue, invention, inventiveness, machination, measure, plot, project, ruse, scheme, slant, stratagem, switch, trick, twist |
Antonyms: |
disorganization |
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intention |
Synonyms: |
action, aim, angle, animus, big picture, brainchild, child*, conation, conspiracy, deliberation, end, enterprise, game plan, gimmick, goal, intendment, intrigue, lay of the land, machination, meaning, notion, object, objective, picture, pitch, plan, play, plot, point, project, proposition, purport, purpose, recipe, reflection, scenario, scene, schema, scheme, setup, story, target, thinking, thought, trick, undertaking, view, volition, what's cooking, will |
| 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: | dodge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick, feint |
Synonyms: |
contrivance, device, machination, method, plan, plot, ploy, ruse, scheme, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, wile |
| 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 |