All deceit synonyms

noun deceit

• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• duplicity — 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 — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• treachery — violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
• misrepresentation — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
• double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
• imposition — the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
• guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
• craft — You can refer to a boat, a spacecraft, or an aircraft as a craft.
• cheating — an instance of rule-breaking
• slyness — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
• deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• ambidexterity — ambidextrous ease, skill, or facility.
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• ambidextrous — Someone who is ambidextrous can use both their right hand and their left hand equally skilfully.
• trapping — traps, Informal. personal belongings; baggage.
• blind — Someone who is blind is unable to see because their eyes are damaged.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• humbug — something intended to delude or deceive.
• sellout — an act or instance of selling out.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
• feint — a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• ruse — a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
• sell — to transfer (goods) to or render (services) for another in exchange for money; dispose of to a purchaser for a price: He sold the car to me for $1000.
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
• stratagem — a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy.
• wile — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
• spoof — a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody: The show was a spoof of college life.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• whitewash — a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
• imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
• pretence — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• falseness — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
• ambidextrousness — The state or quality of being ambidextrous.
• misleading — deceptive; tending to mislead.