noun
1.
the act of deliberately deceiving
resort to falsehood and deception in avoiding the tax
Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chicanery, dipsy-doodle, dirt, dishonesty, double-dealing, dupery, fourberie, fraud, hanky-panky, highbinding, indirection, sharp practice, subterfuge, ||suck-in, trickery
Related Word: cunning, deceit, dissimulation, duplicity, guile; cheating, cozening, defrauding, overreaching; bamboozling, befooling, duping, gulling, hoaxing, hoodwinking; manipulation; ride, ||snow job
Contrasted words: candidness, frankness, openness; honesty, integrity, probity; artlessness, ingenuousness, naiveté
2.
Synonyms: imposture , cheat, deceit, fraud, gyp, hoax, humbug, sell, sham, spoof
Related Word: delusion, hallucination, illusion, mirage
3.
Synonyms: fallacy 2, casuistry, deceptiveness, delusion, equivocation, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness