The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).
synonyms: chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile.
Roget 477:
intuition,
instinct,
association,
hunch,
gut feeling;
presentiment,
premonition;
rule of thumb;
superstition;
astrology†;
faith
(supposition)
514.
sophistry,
paralogy†,
perversion,
casuistry,
jesuitry,
equivocation,
evasion;
chicane,
chicanery;
quiddet†,
quiddity;
mystification;
special pleading;
speciousness
etc.
adj.;
nonsense
etc.
497;
word sense,
tongue sense.
false reasoning,
vicious reasoning,
circular reasoning;
petitio principii [Lat.],
ignoratio elenchi [Lat.];
post hoc ergo propter hoc [Lat.];
non sequitur,
ignotum per ignotius [Lat.].
misjudgment
etc.
481;
false teaching
etc.
538.
sophism,
solecism,
paralogism†;
quibble,
quirk,
elenchus†,
elench†,
fallacy,
quodlibet,
subterfuge,
subtlety,
quillet†;
inconsistency,
antilogy†;
a delusion, a mockery, and a snare"
[Denman];
claptrap,
cant,
mere words;
lame and impotent conclusion"
[Othello].
meshes of sophistry,
cobwebs of sophistry;
flaw in an argument;
weak point,
bad case.
overrefinement†;
hairsplitting
etc.
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Roget 545:
deception;
falseness
etc.
544;
untruth
etc.
546;
imposition,
imposture;
fraud,
deceit,
guile;
fraudulence,
fraudulency†;
covin†;
knavery
etc.
(cunning)
702;
misrepresentation
etc.
(falsehood)
544;
bluff;
straw-bail,
straw bid [U.S.];
spoof [Slang].
delusion,
gullery†;
juggling,
jugglery†;
slight of hand,
legerdemain;
prestigiation†,
prestidigitation;
magic
etc.
992;
conjuring,
conjuration;
hocus-pocus,
escamoterie†,
jockeyship†;
trickery,
coggery†,
chicanery;
supercherie†,
cozenage†,
circumvention,
ingannation†,
collusion;
treachery
etc.
940;
practical joke.
trick,
cheat,
wile,
blind,
feint,
plant,
bubble,
fetch,
catch,
chicane,
juggle,
reach,
hocus,
bite;
card sharping,
stacked deck,
loaded dice,
quick shuffle,
double dealing,
dealing seconds,
dealing from the bottom of the deck;
artful dodge,
swindle;
tricks upon travelers;
stratagem
etc.
(artifice)
702;
confidence trick,
fake,
hoax;
theft
etc.
791;
ballot-box stuffing [U.S.],
barney [Slang];
brace game [Slang],
bunko game,
drop game [Slang],
gum game [U.S.],
panel game [U.S.],
shell game,
thimblerig,
skin game [U.S.].
snare,
trap,
pitfall,
decoy,
gin;
springe†,
springle†;
noose,
hoot;
bait,
decoy-duck,
tub to the whale,
baited trap,
guet-a-pens;
cobweb,
net,
meshes,
toils,
mouse trap,
birdlime;
dionaea†,
Venus's flytrap†;
ambush
etc.
530;
trapdoor,
sliding panel,
false bottom;
spring-net,
spring net,
spring gun,
mask,
masked battery;
mine;
flytrap†;
green goods [U.S.];
panel house.
Cornish hug;
wolf in sheep's clothing
etc.
(deceiver)
548;
disguise,
disguisement†;
false colors,
masquerade,
mummery,
borrowed plumes;
pattes de velours [Fr.].
mockery
etc.
(imitation)
19;
copy
etc.
21;
counterfeit,
sham,
make-believe,
forgery,
fraud;
lie
etc.
546;
a delusion a mockery and a snare"
[Denman],
hollow mockery.
whited sepulcher,
painted sepulcher;
tinsel;
paste,
junk jewelry,
costume jewelry,
false jewelry,
synthetic jewels;
scagliola†,
ormolu,
German silver,
albata†,
paktong†,
white metal,
Britannia metal,
paint;
veneer;
jerry building;
man of straw.
illusion
etc.
(error)
495;
ignis fatuus [Lat.]
etc.
423;
mirage
etc.
443.
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Roget 702:
cunning,
craft;
cunningness†,
craftiness
etc.
adj.;
subtlety,
artificiality;
maneuvering
etc.
v.;
temporization;
circumvention.
chicane,
chicanery;
sharp practice,
knavery,
jugglery†;
concealment
etc.
528;
guile,
doubling,
duplicity
etc.
(falsehood)
544;
foul play.
diplomacy,
politics;
Machiavelism;
jobbery,
backstairs influence.
art,
artifice;
device,
machination;
plot
etc.
(plan)
626;
maneuver,
stratagem,
dodge,
sidestep,
artful dodge,
wile;
trick,
trickery
etc.
(deception)
545;
ruse,
ruse de guerre [Fr.];
finesse,
side blow,
thin end of the wedge,
shift,
go by,
subterfuge,
evasion;
white lie
etc.
(untruth)
546;
juggle,
tour de force;
tricks of the trade,
tricks upon travelers;
espieglerie [Fr.];
net,
trap
etc.
545.
Ulysses,
Machiavel,
sly boots,
fox,
reynard;
Scotchman;
Jew,
Yankee;
intriguer,
intrigant†;
floater [U.S.],
Indian giver [U.S.],
keener [U.S.],
repeater [U.S.].
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Dutch: list, chicanes, valsspelerij, chikane, drogreden, fopperij, trucage