snow job - 18 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | snow job |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misrepresentation |
| Synonyms: | bill of goods, con, flattery, flimflam, scam, smoke and mirrors, soft sell, soft soap, song and dance, conning, hosing, ripoff, the business |
| Main Entry: | flattery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false praise, compliments |
| Synonyms: | adulation, applause, approbation, blarney*, commendation, encomium, eulogy, fawning*, flattering, gallantry, gratification, incense, laud, mush*, palaver, plaudits, puffery*, smoke*, snow*, snow job*, stroke*, sweet talk*, tribute, blandishment, bootlicking, cajolery, eyewash, flummery, fulsomeness, hokum, honeyed words, ingratiation, jive*, obsequiousness, pretty speech, servility, soft words, soft-soap, sycophancy, toadyism, truckling, unctuousness |
| Antonyms: | condemnation, criticism, denunciation, insult, offense, belittlement, castigation |
* = 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: | inducement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incentive, motive |
| Synonyms: | attraction, bait, brainwash*, cause, come-on*, con*, consideration, desire, encouragement, hard sell, hook*, impulse, incitement, influence, leader, lure, reward, snow job*, soft soap*, spur, stimulus, sweet talk*, temptation, twist, urge, carrot* |
| Notes: | the temporal orientation of incentive is toward the future; that of inducement is toward the past |
| Antonyms: | discouragement, hindrance, prevention, disincentive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swindle |
| Synonyms: | blackmail, cheating, con, con game, deceit, deception, dirty pool*, double-cross*, double-dealing*, extortion, flimflam*, fraud, hoax, hustle, racket*, rip-off*, shakedown, sham, shell game*, snow job*, sting, crooked deal, fast one, hosing, shady deal, sucker game |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sham |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hoax, trick |
| Synonyms: | burlesque, cant, caricature, cheat, counterfeit, cover-up, deceit, deception, facade, fake, false front, farce, feint, flimflam*, forgery, fraud, hypocrisy, imitation, impostor, imposture, mock, mockery, pretend, pretense, pretext, pseudo*, sell, smoke*, snow job*, spoof, travesty, whitewash, fakery, hypocriticalness, jive*, pharisaism, phoniness, put-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trickery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, joke |
| Synonyms: | cheat, cheating, chicanery, con, deceit, dishonesty, dodge, double-cross*, double-dealing*, flimflam*, fraud, guile, hoax, imposture, pretense, quackery, scam, shell game*, shenanigans*, snow job*, sting*, stunt, bait and switch, chicane, dupery, fast shuffle, fourberie, funny business, razzle-dazzle, sharp practice, swindling, underhandedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bill of goods |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceive someone |
| Synonyms: | snow job, song and dance, the business |
| Main Entry: | smoke and mirrors |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conjuring trick |
| Synonyms: | flimflam, legerdemain, sleight of hand, snow job, artful deception, crap, hokum |
| Main Entry: | song and dance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | implausible story |
| Synonyms: | bill of goods, bull, con, line, number, scam, snow job, story, elaborate explanation, jive, ripoff, the business |
| Main Entry: | sweet talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flattery for favor |
| Synonyms: | blarney, flattery, incense, snow job, soft soap, blandishment, cajolery, fair words, honeyed words, insincere flattery, nobbling, smooth talk, sweet nothings |
| 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: | joke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fun, quip |
| Synonyms: | antic, burlesque, caper, caprice, drollery, epigram, escapade, farce, frolic, gag, gambol, game, horseplay*, humor, jape, jest, lark, laugh, mischief, monkeyshine*, one-liner*, parody, payoff, play, pleasantry, prank, pun, quirk, raillery, repartee, revel, rib, sally, snow job*, sport, spree, stunt, tomfoolery, trick, vagary, whimsy, wisecrack, witticism, yarn, bon mot, buffoonery, chestnut*, clowning, ha-ha, hoodwinking, mummery, put-on, saw, shaggy-dog story, shenanigan |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | persuasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | influencing to do, believe |
| Synonyms: | alignment, alluring, brainwashing*, cogency, con*, conversion, enticement, exhortation, force, hard sell, hook*, inducement, persuasiveness, potency, power, promote, pull*, seduction, sell*, snow job*, soft soap*, squeeze*, sweet talk*, arm-twist, blandishment, cajolery, goose*, inveiglement, wheedling, winning over, working over |
| Antonyms: | discouragement, hindrance, prevention, dissuasion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | artifice, baloney, bill of goods*, chicanery, con, con game, deceit, deception, dirty pool*, dodge, double-dealing*, fake, fix, flimflam, frame, fraud, gyp, hanky-panky*, hoax, humbug, hustle, imposture, jazz, plant, racket, rip-off, scam, sell, sham, shell game, snow job*, spoof, sting, stunt, swindle, trickery, whitewash, wrong, bamboozlement, bunco, cover up, cozening, dirty trick, fast one, fast shuffle, hoaxing, jive, put-on, run around, shady deal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | particular type of trick, misleading |
| Synonyms: | artifice, blind, cheat, chicanery, crocodile tears*, deception, dirty work*, duplicity, fake, feint, flimflam*, fraud, hoax, humbug, imposture, misrepresentation, pretense, ruse, sell, sham, shift, smoke and mirrors*, snow job*, soft soap*, spoof, stratagem, subterfuge, sweet talk*, swindle, trick, whitewash*, wile, dirty trick, fraudulence, sellout |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | humbug |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hoax |
| Synonyms: | con*, con game*, deceit, flimflam*, fraud, gyp*, hustle, prank, scam, snow job*, spoof, sting, swindle, fast one, put-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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