noun
1.
the act or practice of imposing upon the credulity of others by dishonesty, fraud, or trickery
he was full of deceit in his business dealings
Synonyms: cunning, dissemblance, dissimulation, duplicity, guile
Related Word: chicane, chicanery, deception, double-dealing, fraud, trickery; artifice, craft; cheating, cozening, defrauding, entrapping, overreaching, trapping
Contrasted words: honesty, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, uprightness; candidness, candor, frankness, openness; forthrightness, straightforwardness
2.
Synonyms: imposture , deception, flimflam, fraud, gyp, hoax, humbug, sell, sham, swindle