Thesaurus:deceiver

Thesaurus

deceiver

English

Noun

Sense: a person who lies or deceives

Synonyms

• bamboozler
• bouncer (archaic)
• cheat
• cheater
• cogger
• cony-catcher (obsolete)
• crammer (dated, British slang)
• deceiver
• deceptor (rare)
• fabulist
• falser (obsolete)
• gabber (obsolete)
• grifter
• guiler (obsolete)
• liar
• losenger (obsolete)
• mocker (archaic)
• pseudologist
• rook
• Scandaroon (obsolete)
• shammer
• swindler
• swike (dialectal or obsolete)
• treacher (archiac)
• trickster
• trucker (dialectal)
• wernard (obsolete)

Antonyms

• Honest Abe
• nonliar
• square shooter
• straight shooter
• truthteller

Hyponyms

• abydocomist (obsolete)
• bullshitter
• charlatan
• confidence trickster    [⇒ thesaurus]
• con artist
• conman
• crap artist (US, slang)
• deceptress
• fibber
• flatterer
• fraud
• fraudster    [⇒ thesaurus]
• imposter
• impostor
• medicaster
• mountebank
• pathological liar
• pious fraud
• pseudologue
• quack
• scammer
• smooth operator
• whillywha (Scotland)

Various

• dissembler
• faker
• forger
• hypocrite
• misrepresenter
• kidder
• phoney
• pretender
• sophist

Hypernyms

• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• deceive    [⇒ thesaurus]
• deception    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dupe    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “548. deceiver” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “deceiver” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.