chicanery, stratagem, perfidy, subterfuge, jobbery, manipulations, knavery, nefariousness, sophistry, skulduggery, skullduggery, intrigues, venality, cabal, mendacity, roguery, opportunism, brigandage, rascality, shenanigans, calumny, treachery, machinated, disinformation, contrivance, hackery, cravenness, politicking, claptrap, flummery, psywar, charade, duplicity, lackeys, oligarchy, intriguers, hirelings, doublethink, kleptocracy, ploy, falsehood, imposture, deceit, ethnicism, demagoguery, avarice, diabolism, danse macabre, folly, dastard, sycophants, farrago, sycophancy, misgovernance, bootlicking, connivance, cupidity, mystification, propaganda, pusillanimity, mischance, sleights, unscrupulousness, mindlessness, malignity, legerdemain, meddlesomeness, casuistry, fraudulence, malfeasance, doublespeak, placemen, stooges, charlatanry, fabulists, factionalism, smokescreen, incubus, turpitude, deviousness, peculation, enfeeblement, spinelessness, conspiracies, demonology, inconsequence, pseudo, posturing, sophism, buncombe, adventurism, aggrandizement, gulling, obfuscation, miasma, technocracy, madness, counterpoise, popularism, ineffectuality, apparat, incompetence, machinations, intrigue, conspiracy, deception, scheming, cabals, deceits, evasion, instigation, manoeuvres, ruses, trickery

priestcraft

plot, secret plan