deception
Roget category 545
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.9. Modes of communication
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Deception
noun
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.
verb
deceive,
take in —
defraud,
cheat,
jockey,
do,
cozen,
diddle,
nab,
chouse,
play one false,
bilk,
cully†,
jilt,
bite,
pluck,
swindle,
victimize —
abuse —
mystify —
blind one's eyes —
blindfold,
hoodwink —
throw dust into the eyes —
dupe,
gull,
hoax,
fool,
befool†,
bamboozle,
flimflam,
hornswoggle —
trick.
impose upon,
practice upon,
play upon,
put upon,
palm off on,
palm upon,
foist upon —
snatch a verdict —
bluff off,
bluff —
bunko,
four flush [Slang],
gum [U.S.],
spoof [Slang],
stuff
(a ballot box) [U.S.].
circumvent,
overreach —
outreach,
out wit,
out maneuver —
steal a march upon,
give the go-by,
to leave in the lurch decoy,
waylay,
lure,
beguile,
delude,
inveigle —
entrap,
intrap†,
ensnare —
nick,
springe† —
set a trap,
lay a trap,
lay a snare for —
bait the hook,
forelay†,
spread the toils,
lime —
trapan†,
trepan —
kidnap —
let in,
hook in —
nousle†,
nousel† —
blind a trail —
enmesh,
immesh† —
shanghai —
catch,
catch in a trap —
sniggle,
entangle,
illaqueate†,
hocus,
escamoter†,
practice on one's credulity —
hum,
humbug —
gammon,
stuff up [Slang],
sell —
play a trick upon one,
play a practical joke upon one,
put something over on one,
put one over on —
balk,
trip up,
throw a tub to a whale —
fool to the top of one's bent,
send on a fool's errand —
make game,
make a fool of,
make an April fool of†,
make an ass of —
trifle with,
cajole,
flatter —
come over
etc.
(influence)
615 —
gild the pill,
make things pleasant,
divert,
put a good face upon —
dissemble
etc.
544.
cog,
cog the dice,
load the dice,
stack the deck —
live by one's wits,
play at hide and seek —
obtain money under false pretenses
etc.
(steal)
791 —
conjure,
juggle,
practice chicanery —
deacon [U.S.].
play off,
palm off,
foist off,
fob-off.
lie
etc.
544 —
misinform
etc.
538 —
mislead
etc.
(error)
495 —
betray
etc.
940 —
be deceived
etc.
547.
adjective
deceived
etc.
v. —
deceiving
&c. —
cunning
etc.
702 —
prestigious†,
prestigiatory† —
deceptive,
deceptious† —
deceitful,
covinous† —
delusive,
delusory —
illusive,
illusory —
elusive,
insidious,
ad captandum vulgus [Lat.].
untrue
etc.
546 —
mock,
sham,
make-believe,
counterfeit,
snide [Slang],
pseudo,
spurious,
supposititious,
so-called,
pretended,
feigned,
trumped up,
bogus,
scamped,
fraudulent,
tricky,
factitious bastard —
surreptitious,
illegitimate,
contraband,
adulterated,
sophisticated —
unsound,
rotten at the core —
colorable —
disguised —
meretricious,
tinsel,
pinchbeck,
plated —
catchpenny —
Brummagem.
artificial,
synthetic,
ersatz [G.] —
simulated
etc.
544.
adverb
under false colors,
under the garb of,
under cover of —
over the left.
phrase
keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope"
[Macbeth];
fronti nulla fides [Lat.] —
ah that deceit should steal such gentle shapes"
[Richard III];
a quicksand of deceit"
[Henry VI];
decipimur specie recti [Lat.]
[Horace];
falsi crimen [Lat.] —
fraus est celare fraudem [Lat.] —
lupus in fabula [Lat.] —
so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of virtue"
[Richard III].
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