Thesaurus:deception
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: an action or scheme that maliciously misleads or deludes edit
Synonyms edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
Further reading edit
- “545. deception” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “deception” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.