All boondoggle synonyms
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B b noun boondoggle
- falsehood β a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
- fraud β deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
- trickery β the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
- duplicity β deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
- hypocrisy β a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- betrayal β A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
- untruth β the state or character of being untrue.
- deceit β Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
- mendacity β the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- treachery β violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
- lying β the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
- disinformation β false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
- cheat β When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
- double-dealing β duplicity; treachery; deception.
- imposition β the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
- trickiness β given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
- prevarication β the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- dirt β Design In Real Time
- insincerity β the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
- sophism β a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone.
- craftiness β skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- pretense β pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
- cunning β Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
- flimflam β a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- guile β insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
- trumpery β something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
- circumvention β to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- legerdemain β sleight of hand.
- treason β the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- blarney β Blarney is things someone says that are flattering and amusing but probably untrue, and which you think they are only saying in order to please you or to persuade you to do something.
- deceitfulness β given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
- deceptiveness β apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- dupery β an act, practice, or instance of duping.
- dissimulation β the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- beguilement β to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
- cozenage β the practice of cozening.
- fraudulence β characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- hokum β out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
verb boondoggle
- linger β to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: We lingered awhile after the party.
- putter β to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
- tarry β to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn: He tarried in Baltimore on his way to Washington.
- drag β drag and drop
- procrastinate β to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- trail β to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
- idle β not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
- loiter β to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
- lag β netlag
- lollygag β lallygag.
- fool around β a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
- horse around β a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.