Thesaurus:deception

Thesaurus

deception

English

Noun

Sense: an action or scheme that maliciously misleads or deludes

Synonyms

• Abraham work (archaic, UK, slang)
• deception
• deceit
• dupery
• fiddle
• jugglery
• list    [⇒ thesaurus]
• mislead (noun)
• Punic faith
• rinky-dink (archaic)
• ruse
• subterfuge
• swack (dated, UK, slang)
• trickery

Hyponyms

• Abraham suit (thieves' cant)
• bunco
• cheat
• chicanery
• con
• con game
• confidence game
• confidence trick
• double-dealing
• duplicity
• fakery
• flim-flam
• forgery
• fraud
• fullam (archaic, UK, slang)
• grift
• hoax
• imposture
• Potemkin village
• racket
• rip-off
• scam
• sham
• skulduggery
• swindle
• trick
• underhandedness

See also

• lie    [⇒ thesaurus]
• deceive    [⇒ thesaurus]
• deceiver    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

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