maladroit

deceit, subterfuge, dishonesty, duplicity, concealment, falsehood, misrepresentation, mendacity, obfuscation, underhandedness, fraudulence, treachery, deceitfulness, disinformation, deviousness, dissembling, chicanery, dissimulation, misdirection, manipulation, swindle, sneakiness, forgery, false pretenses, complicity, nefariousness, prevarication, gullibility, ruse, fraud, ignorance, untruth, imposture, hypocrisy, coercion, deceiver, betrayal, evasion, falsity, venality, conspiracy, disingenuousness, falsification, trickery, skullduggery, artifice, perfidy, incompetence, fakery, unscrupulousness, untrustworthiness, fabrications, cajolery, doublespeak, dirty tricks, secretiveness, coverup, roguery, malfeasance, gamesmanship, insincerity, knavery, speciousness, truth, disingenuity, hegelian dialectic, deceptiveness, blackmail, flimflam, shadiness, thievery, charlatan, skulduggery, stupidity, sophistry, wickedness, charade, dubiousness, liars, corruptness, seduction, phoney, fibbing, misdealing, false pretense, shamelessness, doubletalk, arrogance, cowardice, opportunism, delusion, phony, demagoguery, perversion, bamboozlement, misinformation, ambiguousness, irrationality, misguidance, enormities, sham, devilry, deceptions, mystification, equivocation, misunderstanding, transgression, enticement, illusion, indiscretion

blind, bluff, card trick, cheat, cheating, double-dealing, exaggeration, facade, feigning, four flush, guile, half-truth, hanky panky, head game, hocus-pocus, impersonation, indirection, jiggery-pokery, magnification, obscurantism, overstatement, prestidigitation, pretence, pretending, pretense, shenanigan, simulation, sleight of hand, slickness, snow job, wile, window dressing

., aboveboard, bluff, cheat, cheating, chiseler, chiseller, craft, craftiness, crafty, cunning, delusion, dodgy, double-dealing, duplicity, fair, four flush, foxiness, foxy, fraud, gouger, grifter, guile, guileful, head game, illusion, just, knavish, lull, passive air defense, scammer, sharper, sharpie, sharpy, slick, sly, slyness, sneaky, straightforward, swindler, tricksy, tricky, undeceive, underhand, underhanded, unfair, unjust, unwary, wiliness, wily

false statement, performance

conjuring trick, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, trick