Words and phrases that have a meaning related to deceit: (182 results)
Often used in the same context:
deception, dishonesty, duplicity, subterfuge, mendacity, falsehood, treachery, venality, deceitfulness, deviousness, obfuscation, disinformation, unscrupulousness, greed, knavery, betrayal, shamelessness, untruth, chicanery, wickedness, gullibility, corruptness, underhandedness, dissimulation, avarice, malfeasance, hypocrisy, concealment, ignorance, prevarication, roguery, dissembling, fabrications, cajolery, perfidy, cynicism, incompetence, misrepresentation, immorality, fraudulence, sneakiness, nefariousness, truth, falsity, evasions, demagogy, coercion, stupidity, misguidance, foolishness, doublespeak, untrustworthiness, insidiousness, disingenuousness, insincerity, cupidity, imposture, artifices, liars, arrogance, complicity, sophistry, falseness, machination, dirty tricks, delusion, rascality, cowardice, opportunism, illegality, skulduggery, manipulation, maliciousness, conspiracies, perversion, sleaziness, diabolism, inuendo, malignity, crookedness, calumny, deceiver, cunningness, misgovernance, selfishness, mongering, skullduggery, malevolence, speciousness, charade, innuendo, depravity, turpitude, casuistry, doubletalk, brigandage, sleaze, hegelian dialectic, irrationality, recklessness, harlotry, perversity, deceptions, deceits, fraud, mystification, treason, slander, villainy, artifice, guile
More specific:
blind, bluff, cheat, cheating, double-dealing, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, facade, fakery, feigning, four flush, half-truth, hanky panky, head game, hocus-pocus, illusion, impersonation, indirection, jiggery-pokery, magnification, obscurantism, overstatement, pretence, pretending, pretense, shenanigan, simulation, slickness, snow job, trickery, wile, window dressing
Appears in the definition of:
., artless, artlessness, bunco, camouflage, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, devious, diddle, dodging, escape, evade, evasion, fraud in fact, goldbrick, guileless, jockey, mulct, nobble, positive fraud, rig, rip off, rook, scam, screw, set up, shaft, shifty, swindle, transparent, victimize
More general:
Also try:false statement, falsification
— Adjectives for deceit: such, self, vain, deliberate, own, much, intentional, conscious, mutual, more, hurtful, more...
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