Words and phrases that have a meaning related to deceive: (250 results)
Antonyms:
undeceive
Often used in the same context:
mislead, bamboozle, hoodwink, confuse, dupe, defraud, delude, fooled, embarrass, misrepresent, misguide, betray, insinuate, cheat, discredit, intimidate, misinform, frighten, malign, subvert, misdirect, humiliate, beguile, conceal, coerce, obfuscate, manipulate, implicate, entrap, misinterpret, vilify, demonize, bilk, undermine, belittle, disguise, curry favor, seduce, connive, frustrate, befool, terrify, annoy, besmirch, falsify, hypnotise, confound, enlighten, hide, gulled, antagonize, misunderstand, distort, misstate, denigrate, embarass, evade, tricking, conned, circumvent, incriminate, suborn, shortchange, unknowing, unsettle, mystify, outfox, defame, browbeat, ingratiate, distract, marginalize, subjugate, demoralize, goad, dissemble, victimize, offend, ensnare, fibbing, befuddle, deprive, oppress, misconstrue, misapply, perjure, impress, bewilder, harass, hypnotize, bewitch, demean, swindle, mesmerize, entangle, terrorize, punish, indoctrinate, tarnish, infuriate, obstruct, imitate, dost, doth, hath, acquire, answering, be, believe, cease, concealed, confess, deceit, dwell, e'er, express, get, hast, impart, inquire, rejoice, shall, doubtless, unsuspecting, gullible, impressionable, interested, lest, maimed, afraid, bless, braver, but, convinced, deceived, disposed, hurt, knowledgeable, middleclass, minded, nondisabled
More specific:
beat, cheat on, cod, cuckold, fob, fool, fox, frame, gull, hoax, humbug, impersonate, lead by the nose, personate, play false, pose, put on, put one across, put one over, rip off, sell short, set up, shill, slang, snow, take in, trick, wander
Appears in the definition of:
., affect, assumed, bluff, bluff out, chicane, chicanery, contrivance, convolute, counterfeit, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, dishonorable, dissemble, dissembling, dissimulating, dissimulative, diversionary, doctor, doctor up, dodge, double, dupery, fake, fallacious, false, feign, feigning, feint, fictitious, fictive, fob, fob off, foist off, forge, forked, fox, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulent, guile, half-truth, hoax, humbug, inauthentic, lie, misleading, palm off, pervert, plant, play a trick on, pretence, pretend, pretended, pretense, professeda, professedly, pull a fast one on, put-on, put on, sandbag, sham, shenanigan, snake oil, sophisticate, spurious, stratagem, trick, trickery, trompe l'oeil, trumped-upa, twist, twist around, unauthentic, wile
More general:
victimise
Synonyms:
Also try:cozen, lead astray, lead on
— Nouns for deceive: men, people, others, thousands, nobody, themfelves, thee, man, hunger, consumers, readers, more...
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