n. Function: noun
1 the act or practice of imposing upon the credulity of others by dishonesty, fraud, or trickery FF1C; he was full of deceit in his business dealings FF1E;
Synonyms: cunning, dissemblance, dissimulation, duplicity, guile
Related Words: 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
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Synonyms: IMPOSTURE , deception, flimflam, fraud, gyp, hoax, humbug, sell, sham, swindle