deceit
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(noun) the act of deceiving |
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Synonyms: deception, dissembling, dissimulation |
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Related Words: bluff, cheat, cheating, chicanery, double-dealing, duplicity, fakery, falsehood, falsification, feigning, four flush, guile, head game, illusion, impersonation, imposture, indirection, misrepresentation, obscurantism, pretence, pretending, pretense, shenanigan, simulation, trickery, wile |
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(noun) the quality of being fraudulent |
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Synonyms: fraudulence |
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Related Words: dishonesty |
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(noun) a misleading falsehood |
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Synonyms: deception, misrepresentation |
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Related Words: blind, dissembling, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, facade, false statement, falsehood, falsity, feigning, fraudulence, half-truth, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, magnification, overstatement, pretense, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, snow job, subterfuge, trickery, untruth, window dressing |
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